I am not referring to the Judd’s song from 1984 but to the lunacy of modern American politics.  The lunacy is pervasive in Washington, oozing out and engulfing a large swath of our society.  Sir Isaac Newton said, “I can calculate the motion of the heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.” 

Just reading the headlines of various blogs and news media sites reveals the utter lunacy and madness prevalent in our world in 2023.  I wish I could say this is a passing trend, and a return to sanity and normalcy is around the corner, but I believe this is the new normal.  I also believe this new normal will become darker and open the door for our self-destruction as a republic.  It does not have to happen, but when those in the asylum run the institution, nothing productive results.

I want to wade through a few headlines and reports to validate my contention that craziness is the new norm in America and American politics.  The Supreme case Tingley v. Ferguson is revealing.  Brian Tingley, a 20-year marriage and family counseling veteran, appealed to the SCOTUS to hear his challenge to a discriminatory law passed by Washington State in 2018.

In almost fifty percent of the states and the District of Columbia, when a counselor legally guides a minor patient to embrace his or her God-given biological sex when that boy or girl is buffeted by the winds of transgender hysteria and confusion is banned.  That is called “conversion therapy.”  Tingley argues that the law violates his inalienable right of speech and his religious liberty.  He argues that the Washington law is “anti-religious” and violates “his right to live his faith.”

Based on this law, a licensed counselor is not permitted to encourage minors to fight through their mental, emotional, and spiritual turmoil and embrace their God-given gender identity.  However, the law does allow licensed counselors to encourage and guide them in the other direction and embrace a transgender identity.  If that is not discriminatory, then I must not know the definition of discriminatory.

Research by the CMDA indicates that about 80 percent of minors who experience gender confusion “naturally align” their thinking to their biological sex over time.  That would mean that the Gender-transition procedures (GTPs) pushed by those counselors would be devastating and, if followed through, medically irreversible.  That could and does lead to an increase in suicides and other adjustment issues that makes life a living hell for them and those around them.

The gender confusion being pushed is madness, and to prevent licensed counselors from following their core convictions and the minors from resisting the push to pursue irreversible action is a violation of our inalienable rights and our moral mandate.  I believe there are two genders as created by God, male and female.  To insist that young children are mentally, morally, and socially mature enough to make those decisions is idiotic and dangerous. 

Another evidence of the pervasive lunacy and madness in today’s world is Peter Singer’s insistence that AI (Artificial Intelligence) should have human rights.  What?  This illustrious ethics professor at Princeton University also argues for abortion and euthanasia.  He gives AI more favor than the life of the unborn in the womb and the right for people to live until God takes them home.

He said: “They say, “Well, you know, do we know whether a lobster is really conscious?” and I would say look, there is some evidence that a lobster is conscious and capable of feeling pain, and even if we’re not completely sure, we should give the benefit of the doubt.”  However, the scientifically and medically documented fact that the baby in the womb can feel pain is inconsequential to him.  Lobsters are more valuable than human life, it would seem.

He, like most of the pro-choice or pro-abortion contingent, does not believe that the babies in the womb are people.  He said, “Killing a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person, that is, a being who wants to go on living.”  To confound the matter even more, he acknowledges that he admits that life begins at conception but argues that a human life is not worth preserving or even simply not actively destroying just on the basis of it being a human life.  That is beyond lunacy and madness!  He said, “I don’t think that the fact that an embryo is a living human being is sufficient to show that it is wrong to kill it.”  I have no words to describe my horror at that attitude!

Another is a current contention that ‘Waking up Early is Racist.’  That’s right; if you thought that rising early, being productive, and being industrious was a good thing, you are deemed wrong; it is racist.  That’s the contention, and it is utter madness.  The purveyors of this idea contend that by getting up early, you are affirming a system that’s roots are embedded in white supremacy.  You are, therefore, part of the problem and must change or be punished.

The contention was that slaves were forced to get up early; therefore, anyone who wakes up early is racist because they are perpetuating the system that produced slavery.  Do not try to argue that for centuries and millenniums, people have gone to bed and arose with the sun out of situational necessity.  Forget the fact that multiplied millions, if not billions, of people throughout human history have had to wake up early and put in a hard day’s work to survive and provide for themselves and their families; it is racist.

What seems to be missed in all this craziness and lunacy is the undercurrent seeking to tear down every shred of our societal framework and make everything racist.  If you get up early, exercise, labor, and do things to be healthier and wealthier, you are racist.  If you participate in home exercise and outdoor sports, seek to maintain a healthy weight, eat a healthy diet, be on time, and wake up early, you are racist.  Personal responsibility is also racist.  This is beyond madness; it is diabolical, destructive, and deadly.

I believe in God!  I am a follower of Jesus Christ, a Christian!  I get up early and have all my life.  I strive to be on time all the time.  I do not exercise as I should nor eat as healthily as I should, but I believe those are good things.  I hate no one and begrudge no one what they have acquired through their labors and even inheritances.  I am not a racist, but according to the modern WOKE mentality, I am because I am a white male of European lineage. 

America, if we continue to allow the lunacy being advanced and imposed on us to prevail, we are destroying ourselves.  If we allow our children’s continued indoctrination and brainwashing, we are destroying ourselves.  We will destroy ourselves if we continue to demand tolerance of everything that violates our core convictions and the Bible. 

It is time that we return to our moral moorings and reestablish our commitment to and value of morality, ethics, family, and faith.  We can salvage this republic, but only by casting off the lunacy that is being demanded, returning to God, and uniting as a singular voice that says, NO MORE!

God bless you, and God bless America!