Cass McWade is a young woman living in North Carolina. She suffers from a number of chronic illnesses, including "psoriatic arthritis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and early-stage Crohn’s disease, " that entitle her to display a disabled sticker on the rear window of her car. On Monday she was involved in a car accident, which disabled her car. When her family's regular mechanic was unable to come out and tow it to the garage (and pick up Cass as well), he sent a substitute: Shupee Max Towing owned by Max Shupe, a devout conservative Christian. When he got to the scene, he hooked up her car to his tow truck, and everything seemed to be going just fine until he saw her Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. Then this happened:

“He goes around back and comes back and says, ‘I can’t tow you,'” McWade said. “My first instinct was there must be something wrong with the car, and he says, ‘No, you’re a Bernie supporter.’ And I was like, ‘Wait — really?’ And he says, ‘Yes ma’am,’ and just walks away.”

Shupe offered a supernatural explanation for his decision to leave the 25-year-old McWade, who suffers from arthritis and other health conditions, alongside I-26.

“Something came over me, I think the Lord came to me, and He just said, ‘Get in the truck and leave,'” Shupe said. “And when I got in my truck, you know, I was so proud, because I felt like I finally drew a line in the sand and stood up for what I believed.”

Mind you, this isn't illegal. Political affiliation is not a protected class under our civil rights laws. But it is pretty damning that someone would use as an excuse his so called "Christian values" to deny service to a disabled woman just because she supports a political candidate he didn't like. It's beyond petty.

Oh by the way, did I mention he is a Trump supporter? Yes indeedy. And apparently he believes Sanders' supporters are all low life scum who don't pay their bills, so that also justifies his behavior in his mind. He claimed he didn't know Cass McWade was disabled, but that wouldn't have made any difference to him, he claimed. He just wants us to respect his beliefs, because - reasons.

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Every business dealing in recent history with a socialist minded person I have not gotten paid," Shupe said. "Every time I deal with these people I get 'Berned' with an 'e' not a 'u'."

Shupe, who runs Shupee Max Towing in Travelers Rest, said he is a conservative Christian who supports Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

“I respect their beliefs, and I hope they respect my views,” Shupe said Wednesday.

The woman’s mother Kelle McWade posted an angry message on Facebook after the incident, calling Shupe a bigot.

"Trump's motto is 'Make America Great Again'," McWade said. "And this kind of divisive behavior is not going to make America great again."

Well, Mr. Shuppe, here's what I think about you and your views. You believe you are a liar, a hypocrite and a premium grade A asshole. But hey, I will say this for you. At least you haven't been caught (yet) placing leaflets on cars windshields advocating for the mass murder of Muslims and Latinos, which happened in Sacramento, California, and is under police investigation:

Denise Calderon, a community activist, said she awoke to find the message directed against Muslims and Hispanics on vehicles around her apartment at 26th and J streets.

“It basically gives a green light to assassinate Muslims and Latinos in our community,” Calderon said.

The letter ends with the sentence: “If you have not secured a body dump-site, do so now! Kidnap, rob, torture for information and execute all Muslims and Latinos. Leave no survivors.”

The letter is signed Greg Withrow, co-founder and president of the Aryan Youth Movement-White Student Union. His attempts in the 1980s to form a chapter while a student at American River College prompted school officials to obtain a restraining order to keep him off campus.

That's right, someone urging all those little Dylann Roof clones in hiding to come out of the closet and go on a racial killing spree the likes of which we haven't seen in America in almost one hundred years. As if what happened at Charleston last year wasn't bad enough.

Lovely country we live in. And who created this much anger, hatred, racism and mainstreaming of radical right wing genocidal fantasies? The Republican Party. Ever since Reagan (Hell since Nixon) this has been their modus operandi. They are the ones responsible for allowing bigotry and hatred to be openly expressed with little if any consequences (with a little help from certain of their friends in the Democratic Party, of course).

And now we live in a country where it is just fine to express such violent and hateful desires, one where the presumptive nominees of the GOP encourages his followers at his rallies to "rough up" non-violent protestors. One where a war veteran gets booed by the Republican faithful at a Republican debate - in 2011 - because he was gay. One where laws are passed to endanger the lives of transgender women and men.

One where an entire city's water system was poisoned and then its citizens, the majority of them poor African Americans, were charged the highest rates in the country for the benefit of receiving such largesse. Where police get away with murder of minorities, men women and children, at an alarmingly disproportionate rate. Not to mention our endless and useless wars on "terror" around the world, which gave us secret "black" prisons, invasive surveillance by the CIA, NSA and FBI, the authorized use of torture, the countless number of of war crimes for which no one but a few lowly grunts have been held accountable, etc. I could go on and on, but I think you get the idea.

Exceptional country? Hell, yes. An exceptionally bad one and getting worse every day.