The Age of Normalized Evil
By the National Association for the Advancement of Humanity
Trump has ushered in a new era of moral collapse — an age where decency is mocked, truth is optional, and cruelty has become a political strategy. We’ve all seen it at the national level: the sneer, the lie, the smirk that says, “I can get away with anything.” But what’s truly frightening is how this poison has seeped into every small town in America — even here in Payson.
Our own “Three Stooges” on the town council — Steve Otto, Jim Ferris, and Charlie Bell — have become local disciples of the Trump gospel: deny, divide, and destroy. Their latest stunt? Trying to kill a swimming pool project that could bring joy, safety, and opportunity to our young people — all so they can posture as heroes before their MAGA fan club.
Let’s be clear: this isn’t just politics. It’s the worship of ego over empathy, of arrogance over service. These men are so drunk on their own self-importance that they would rather rob a generation of children of a pool than admit that progress sometimes requires courage.
Across America, Trump has shown people how to replace conscience with conspiracy, how to trade compassion for contempt. He built a movement on resentment, and in small towns like ours, that resentment finds easy targets — the librarian, the teacher, the coach, the kid who just wants a safe place to swim.
Evil doesn’t arrive wearing horns. It arrives in nice shirts, smiling for the cameras, saying it’s just “fiscal responsibility.” But behind that smile is a sneer — a sneer that says the future doesn’t matter, that truth doesn’t matter, that children don’t matter.
The National Association for the Advancement of Humanity believes that progress is morality. When a community builds something that serves its people — especially its young — it’s not just a project; it’s a declaration of who we are.
Payson must choose whether it will follow the politics of spite or the path of decency. The Malibu pool isn’t just a swimming pool. It’s a test — a test of whether our community still believes in building something good together.
Let’s prove that humanity still matters.
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