I’ve always been a Republican, and a conservative.  I came by it honestly.  My grandparents were Republican district leaders in the City of Newark.  Yes, there once were Republicans in Newark.  Politics is a blood sport.  Throughout our history, we’ve had knock-down, drag-out political battles between the various Parties.  Since the 1850’s the battle has been between Democrats and Republicans.  Though these two Parties have been mortal enemies, until recently there always was a consensus that the government must secure the nation’s welfare and security.  The fighting was limited to each Party’s perspective on how to go about doing those things.  Sure, Democrats may have favored more government spending, but they wouldn’t advocate reckless spending.  Case in point – In 1964, LBJ got the so-called Kennedy Tax Cut through Congress.  His Party controlled both Houses, but LBJ had to convince Democrat Senator Harry Byrd that real spending would be cut before Byrd would permit the bill to pass.  Simply put, although Democrats controlled everything, they weren’t crazy.  Regardless of Party affiliation, sanity reigned.  Ah, those were the days, but they are no more.  Today, everywhere you look, insanity reigns.  It’s been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.  Let me amend that saying.  Insanity is doing anything Progressive Democrats are doing, because all of it is crazy.  All of it.  Take the border policy.  Democrats wanted to increase immigration.  Fair enough, but what did they do?  Turned the border into a sieve, and brought in more than a million illegals, who they then transported throughout the country to infiltrate every community, and further sap our educational, medical and housing resources.  That’s crazy.  How about energy policy?  Democrats publicly announced that they will destroy our oil and gas industries.  They took an energy independent nation, with low fuel prices, and transformed it into a beggar nation.  Gasoline $5.  Heating oil $6. And a president who is touring the world to beg our enemies to sell us fuel we could produce for ourselves.  Democrats first blamed Russia.  Now they confessed it’s all part of their plan to transition the U.S. to “renewable energy.”  They mean solar and wind power.  Only we can’t run our economy on solar and wind.  There is no transition.  There can’t be.  There isn’t enough land area in the U.S. to build enough solar and wind farms to produce enough energy to run even New York City.  Democrats know this.  They don’t care.  That’s crazy.  Inflation.  Lie as they might, Democrats know that reckless spending causes runaway inflation.  We have runaway inflation.  The Democrat solution?  More spending.  That’s crazy.  What about crime policy?  Violent crime and property crime is up over 40%.  Crime on mass transit is up 65%.  The Democrat solution?  Release criminals from jail, and impose regulations on law abiding citizens that prevent them from defending themselves.  Handcuff the police.  Refuse to prosecute crimes.  That’s crazy.  And it’s not just the federal government.  Look at New York.  The MTA got $15 billion federal “stimulus” money to bail it out of its debt, supposedly due to the Wuhan plague.  They’ve burned through that money, are broke again, and are begging for more money.  Ridership is barely half what it was pre-Wuhan, for two reasons.  Workers don’t want to return to office buildings to work, and those who are going to the City are afraid to ride the subway due to crime.  What’s the City planning to do?  Raise transit fares, and impose “congestion pricing” on anyone driving below 60th Street.  That will only make things worse.  It’s crazy. The squeegie men  are back threatening motorists.  Mayor Adams doesn’t want to use “heavy-handed” police to stop them.  He wants to send social workers “to supply the needs” of the squeegies.  That’s crazy.  And it’s not just New York.  In Kalamazoo, Michigan, there’s a law that requires people to clean up after their dogs.  But Kalamazoo just decriminalized public urination, defecation and littering by people.  So if you walk your dog and he takes a dump on the sidewalk, you have to pick that up, but you can drop trou,  crap on the street, and just walk away.  Residents and business owners have complained to the City Council.  The Mayor’s answer?  Just live with it.  We can’t arrest the homeless for public defecation because any criminal record may prevent them from getting a job.  Huh?  That’s what he said.  A council-person added that they can’t enforce the law because anyone who craps in the street has to be mentally ill, so they’re not accountable.  It’s the Kalamazoo Catch 22.  You can’t be held legally liable if you’re crazy, and  if you crap in the street you must be crazy, so why have a law at all?  The Democrats also have an annoying tendency simply to ignore or deny what Al Gore might call inconvenient truths.  When they don’t like reality, they simply deny it.  I’m no psychiatrist, but that sounds crazy.  Take the Wuhan vaccines.  Joe Biden and Dr. Fauci told us if we took the vaccines we couldn’t get the Wuhan.  Since telling us that, Fauci has had the Wuhan three times and Biden has it now.  Fauci has had to admit that the vaccines didn’t work.  Dr. Deborah Birx this week admitted they knew all along they wouldn’t work.  Meanwhile our government has hounded those who refused the vaccine, and has fired them from their jobs.  They’ve simply ignored the Fauci and Birx confessions.  Inflation in excess of 9% is killing Americans.  The Dems said it was temporary, and not so bad anyway.  Now they say it’s peaked and is going down.  Economists don’t agree, predicting even higher inflation to come.  Democrats say, “who you gonna believe, us or your lying bank account?”  Now economists are predicting a recession.  Recession has always been defined as two quarters of negative growth, which we just had.  But not so fast.  Democrats deny the age-old definition.  There’s no recession, because they say so.  An individual who has lost touch with reality cries out for an intervention to obtain medical help.  A government which has lost touch with reality is a tragedy of biblical proportions.  It too calls out for an intervention, not medical, but political.  We can disagree on political issues, but crazy is crazy, no matter your political affiliation.  November is approaching, and sanity is calling out for our assistance.  In November, don’t vote for a Party or a philosophy, vote for a return to sanity.