We are presently living in a country that seems more like Freedonia from Duck Soup (1933) than the Pride of the Americas. Although I found a way to include the Marx Brothers in this post, it may be the only humor I can muster.

Right now, my heart is pulsing, and a sense of desperation is creeping into my senses. The world has become surreal and completely and predictably unpredictable.

This is how we felt in Minnesota in 1998 when Jesse Ventura was elected Governor, stunned and blindsided. The local newscasters all looked like that kid from ET touching fingertips with an alien.

But, we had confidence that our “system” and Legislature would hold him in check. And they did their job, they kept him in a headlock with a release every now and then. I personally think he made our State better with many of his decisions. The ones that I didn’t agree with, our Legislature didn’t either.

Today we’re in a bizarre world regarding the national political scene. As I laughed, with what I thought was everybody, before the 2016 election, there was always the thought in the back of my head, I’ve seen this scenario before. Well Gang, “Fool me twice……”

A man who can’t put a lid on his ID has been elected President, and no one, let me repeat that, NO ONE is holding him in check. He has broken all the rules and caused legislative damage. What is concerning is that we’ve become desensitized to it. There’s no way in one post I can list all of his transgressions, both personally and politically, but it’s massive. It’s become a case of, “Ok, now what??!”

Right now, I am addressing the people that act as the GOP voices in Washington DC. Whatever alternative world, with alternative facts they live in, I want out.

Congress has become a big playground and the GOP kids aren’t playing fair. They rewrite the rules as the game goes on. And because there’s more of them than there is of us, we must play along. In the case of Kavanaugh, they want to get one of their own in the position of Playground Attendant.

They can now change rules that we believe in, destroy the playground, abuse our players, decide which kids can play, and make a mockery of logic and compassion when competing. The only person we can complain to, agrees with them.

I’m using a juvenile analogy because these players are acting childish. It is right in front of our faces what they are doing with the shoddy and limited façade called an FBI investigation.

Very seriously, the real damage is that I, for the first time, am doubting my trust in the FBI. How can they be a GOP puppet? But that’s what it looks like and that is scary. Trump has successfully made his enemy, our enemy.

The truth is, I won’t be burned again. I am preparing myself for Kavanaugh’s confirmation and how I will preserve my convictions and stand by them. I will continually remind myself…Right is still Right even if nobody is doing it, and Wrong is still Wrong even if everybody is doing it.

One more thought regarding this FBI sexual assault investigation… Hoover is probably turning over in his grave and the irony is, he might be wearing a dress.