"you also know something terrible is afoot when a friend tells about visiting a gun show in Topeka, Kansas, and sees a lot of regular-looking people buying weapons & stuffing them into their tinted-window vans. Maybe it's those militia people, some say. Hello no, it's just scared Americans protecting themselves, others say back. From what? From everything. Whole areas are no-go now, fenced off by ideology and hatred. This too, is the U.S. in all its madness, a fevered thing that seems to relish its woes."