Ignorant

The long valley finally began to curve back around and lead into the region I had seen the demons land. In this way it formed a U-shape of two separate valleys. "That, is the valley where the demons get cut loose on souls. It's extra worse and by its very nature a demon is a huge asshole." We paused and looked upon the last demon-free punishment at the cusp of the two valleys. I watched as thousands of souls laid out on the ground writhing in pain while fire rained down in the form of hot coals from the sky. Everytime a soul was hit they would writhe in pain and try to cover themselves, but there was nowhere to go and no one had any clothes on. "These are ignorant souls. People who decided that reading was for losers and that skipping class was better than learning. They mocked people solely because they were smarter than they were, repressed entire communities by insulting the developing educated elite, and generally were just obnoxious by speaking their ignorant opinions as if they were worth listening to." I found myself mostly apathetic to these souls, unable to really relate or understand what would motivate a person to despise someone smarter than them. Just when I was about to move on, I saw him. The person I had perhaps been waiting to see in Hell this entire journey: George Bush Jr. He was writhing on the ground because of the constant barrage of raining fire. I walked up and kneeled down to him. "Um, Mr.President sir, if you could, a few words about what you're doing here and everything," I asked. Even in death, I felt a mild duty to speak to the former leader of America with deference. "All those smarmy pricks who think they are better than me. Making fun of how I speak, my policies, acting like I'm some kind of dumb redneck. So I don't speak so good, so I don't give off an image of capability or competence, so what? I'm what America voted for, damnit!" And that was all he had to say. He turned his back on me and got hit right in the ass with a flaming coal. I guess I felt a twinge of pity, but mostly just annoyance. Here was the asshole who had instituted 'No Child Left Behind', a program that punishes teachers and creates an even stronger emphasis on test scores. The Voucher system. Who had destroyed education on every conceivable level. It was almost fitting that the bastard wasn't here for starting a senseless war, for promoting oil interests on an ever heating planet, he was just here for being ignorant and hating intelligent people. Like most of the things in Hell, I found that somehow it made sense. The Liberal Elite indeed. Faulkner and I began to make our way through the throngs to the far end of the valley.