RE: This dark, malevolent shadow...

I've been trying to understand how someone does this too (since there is a lot of value in understanding the worst among us, as a key to understanding parts of ourselves). Still. I lean fairly right myself. I do believe (perhaps swayed by propaganda) that some leftists are a-holes. Yet to go out and plan to murder somebody in cold blood...beyond me.

That means that, with the laws of the universe, there is a balancing force also there to bring things back and this is a lot of what I cling to these days.

Indeed. I once knew someone who talked a lot about the forces of good on earth here to defeat the forces of evil. Thought he was crazy. Now thinking maybe not so much, you know? Evil and satanical - I know no other way to describe what's happening to our world (and I'm not one to use such words lightly).