The Case For Righteous Fury

Indignation is not enough

Righteous (adjective)

• acting in accord with divine or moral law : free from guilt or sin

• morally right or justifiable

• arising from an outraged sense of justice or morality

A constitutional crisis is being set up to test whether the Musk-Trump Reich has to abide by the decisions of the courts. The Congress is pushing an evil clown car of murderous psychopaths through to the Cabinet. The richest man is cutting off food to starving kids — while he downloads the government into his AI supercluster. A rogue crew of pubescent National Socialists are running rampant in DC turning white male terror into policy by seizing buildings and amputating agencies they don’t like. The US won’t go to the G20 in Johannesburg to protest racism against white people in South Africa. The newly nazified military is getting ready to attack Mexico and ethnically cleanse Gaza.

Nevertheless, the country marches forth, barely acknowledging that things are “off”. MAGA is delighted at the performative whining of the libs, blissfully unaware that nearly all these transgressions will affect them even more than woke Democrats. Trump is running the Kennedy Center from the Super Bowl — while unaccountable children destroy the federal government.

Where is the righteous fury? What the hell is going on?

The problem is that we’ve largely lost the ability to determine what is right and what is wrong. We have lost morality entirely as a justification for action, for defiance, for speaking truth to power. Trumpism is immoral at its core — we are suffering the Seven Deadly Sins in regime form. But a decade of exposure to it has had the effect of making too many normies veer towards the amoral. We are allowing the sheer evil of the world to distort our moral compass into directional ambiguity.

So, I want you, yes you, the one reading right now, to listen to me closely.

Are you listening?

OK, here goes.

You are right. You are not imagining things. What is happening to America is wrong. It is immoral. It is evil. It is more than inhumane, it is inhuman.

Fear as a reaction to a malignant force this dark is understandable, but fear is not the answer. Let your fear flow through you and turn your fear into righteous fury.

Let me define “righteous fury” as I see it. Righteous fury is not uncontained rage. It is not hate. It is the self-assurance that there is right and wrong in the world. Racism, misogyny and lying are still not acceptable in a civilized society. Righteous fury is the steel-eyed, hard look that comes from knowing that justice and accountability for those who would harm others to benefit themselves will come — no matter how long it takes. It’s also what real “Christian values” are all about.

What you do with your righteous fury is up to you. I can’t tell you how to use it. But start right where you are. Start with the people around you. Do not be afraid to say “That is immoral. That is wrong.” If someone throws off a racist remark in your presence, or questions whether we should bother obeying the courts, stop letting it slip by. This erosion must stop at the individual level. It requires courage. It requires conflict. But let your righteous fury reassure you that your compass still points North.

Indignation is not enough. It’s time for the agents of darkness to see, and feel, the fury of the righteous.

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