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If the Prince of Darkness Invented a Disorder
In April of this year, I entered into another dimension of reality … or unreality, as I’ve come to understand it. It’s as if I was picked up and placed in the front-most, center-most seat of a classroom within which the darkest strategies of destruction would be presented. The topic? A disorder so sinister, so shrewd, and so malevolent that one could not be blamed for turning tail and jumping off the nearest cliff to certain death in order to escape the hellish existence this disorder voraciously seeks to foist with determined intent upon unsuspecting innocents.
Forgive the drama. I’m trying to get your attention.
This is a malady of disintegration and fragmentation made up of lies, superstition, fear, and despair; manifesting uncontrollable compulsions, illogical rituals, and overwhelming blasts of a thousand voices in the head, accusing the innocent of fabricated faults and irredeemable flaws without end, leaving the innocent with only one thing: the belief that they are hopelessly insane and of no worth.
If you are feeling bat-[bleep] crazy, or just plain bats (I hate to use that term bats, due to the Wuhan crap and is now associated with COVID), I just want to say (shout) – you are not alone! Not by a longshot. You, my friend, are not crazy, but normal in every sense of the word, so rest assured. The circumstances around you are not right. Your sense that this is the case, is normal, so check that box. What is not normal is what we are witnessing around us. Let’s examine:
I started writing this in the hours after American gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from the Olympic women’s team competition. Then I let it sit to see what the rest of the story might be. From the beginning, I found that Simone Biles, at age 24, was on track to be the second oldest women’s all-around Olympic champion. This naturally led to the oldest modern Olympic women’s all-around gymnastics champion, who won at the age of 26 in Mexico in 1968. The Czechoslovakian Věra Čáslavská, one of only two two-time all-around Olympic champions in women’s gymnastics, performed under far more real pressure, with far more real courage, facing far more real consequences than any athlete in Tokyo.
Only weeks into the new Biden-Harris Administration, Democrats defeated a bill that would have protected babies that survived an abortion. Called the 
