This is the first of two Blogs on Violence in Joe Biden's America. This Blog will discuss political violence. Blog two will discuss social violence. There has been a consistent drumbeat, from international Readers of this Blog, for this Blogger to divine   Joe Biden’s 2022 America. That is not a difficult divination; but, it is a sad one, almost tragic.   America, in 2022, is in an antebellum state, akin to 1936 Spain, pre-civil war Spain.   If that description is too prosaic for this Blogger's international followers, then let us say this.   Imagine if you will; that in 2022, America is a tiny, teeny raft, drifting just out of the reach of the Corryvreckan whirlpool of civil war. To the right of this tiny, teeny adrift raft is a torrent of political violence, cascading toward it, to swamp it; to the left, is a torrent of social violence, nihilistic violence, cascading down to rip it to shreds. The tiny, teeny raft is in an unenviable, perhaps untenable position.   POLITICAL VI

Below is a picture of the great British actor, Nicol Williamson, as MERLIN, the leftover Druid wizard, in the Arthurian film, EXCALIBUR. He is an important figure in this matrix of entropy, for he could recognize the Dragon. He was so great that Nobel Laureates for Literature, playwrights Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter thought he was the world’s greatest living actor, as did literary legend, John Osborne.   This Blogger was dating a British girl, from a fallen aristocratic money; oh, they still had wealth, but had fallen from fun. They only knew decadence; they had forgotten the joy of wiggling one’s toes; and the benefit of not being stalked by raptors, or saber tooth tigers or piranha.   She inveigled this Blogger to see Williamson as HAMLET on Broadway; it was the greatest performance this Blogger had ever seen, and remains so to this day.    She was privy to British gossip; how Williamson and    gorgeous Helen Mirren had had a tempestuous affair while appearing on stage in MACBET