This may be the scariest Halloween ever. Two ghouls are in the lead for the Presidency. They claim to be people, but that seems to be just a masquerade. Even in their guises as humans, they are horrifying. Parents could use their names to scare children to eat their vegetables and do their homework. But then the children would have nightmares. The parents already do.
The financial markets are being inflated by the Federal Reserve into a monstrous bubble, a bloated spectral presence that could bring back the demons and vampires of the 2008 financial crisis. Pension plans, annuities and long term care insurance are being scared to death by ultra-low interest rates. Anyone hoping to retire is hanging garlic over their front doors.
Overseas, demons, banshees and poltergeists bedevil us. The Middle East is a seething mass of murderous conflict, seemingly a nightmare from which we can't wake up. North of the Middle East, a fiendish demon toils at midnight, boiling eye of newt, toe of frog, wool of bat, and tongue of dog into a toxic mix that he flings in all directions while chanting diabolically in a language not heard since ancient times. In North Korea, a beast with curved horns labors with a crooked smile revealing jagged teeth to find ways to deliver inferno thousands of miles.
Our industrialized economy spews noxious fumes that heat the Earth hotter and hotter. Everything we ingest--food, water, and air--causes cancer or heart disease. Even sweetness itself, in the form of sugar and other natural sweeteners, silently stalks our health.
Alfred Hitchcock never made a movie so scary. The real world would scare the bejesus out of Vincent Price. If Stephen King needs inspiration, he can simply pick up a newspaper. The truth is we have Halloween year round. The only thing that happens on October 31 is people wear costumes. The rest of the time, we can only try to stay safe, if that's possible. Happy Halloween, America.
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