Today, someone on the Fediverse told me, “Your free speech is not important to me.”Ironic—because my free speech bothered them enough to send me a message about it. But I don’t say things because they’re important to you. I say things because they’re important to me. So important that I pay for the privilege of owning and managing atomicpoet.org. Which means my free speech doesn’t depend on the whims of someone else—or whatever their mood is at the moment. It’s based upon my own personal integrity. My personal integrity says, “Speak the truth even when others are bothered by it”—which they are.Specifically, the truth is that Trumpism is a religious cult. It’s a cult—talking about that shouldn’t be isolated to a #uspol hashtag because it’s actually #worldpol. And this isn’t merely politics anymore. It’s religion. Trump comparing himself to Jesus Christ is beyond political propaganda—it’s religious proselytism in a literal sense. Everyone should know this. I make no apologies for saying it in the most public way possible.
