From the canceling of Dr. Seuss—If Theodore Geisel was a racist, I’m a Martian—to the President of the United States calling the governors of Texas and Mississippi “Neanderthal” for wanting to open their states and allow their increasingly depressed, suicidal children to go back to school, to the House of Representatives shutting down for fear of something or someones called an MVE, we no longer live in a democratic republic. We live in something closer to a giant lunatic asylum. What’s an MVE, you may ask?  I didn’t know myself until a couple of days ago. Well, apparently those are “militant violent extremists.” Are there a lot of them?  Since in recent Senate testimony it was admitted not a single person in the supposed Jan. 6 “insurrection” at the Capitol had a gun or any other serious weapon, the “flying fire extinguisher” having been debunked, I’m betting on something more …