Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was enjoying a charmed life, succeeding in just about everything she undertook in a country she believed was solidly entrenched in the principal of meritocracy.  Then, along came a bully who declared himself to be a woman and adopted the name Lia Thomas for his newly created fictitious life.

Thomas was a student at the University of Pennsylvania and an average swimmer on the men’s swimming team.  However, encouraged by the insanity of the world around him, he announced that he was actually a woman.  Never mind that thing hanging between his legs; he was now a female because he said so.

Thomas then announced that he was joining the women’s swimming team at Penn.  The result?  Say goodbye to mediocrity and hello to magically setting new swimming records — for women, that is.  Welcome to America 2023, where insanity has come to be accepted as reality.  The game is simple:  Just state your fantasy out loud and it is transformed into reality.

Riley Gaines is one of the few women to speak out against so-called trans women (i.e., men) competing in women’s sports after being cheated out of a first-place finish by the aforementioned Lia Thomas.  Gaines even had the audacity to openly object to Lia Thomas’ galivanting around the women’s locker room with his genitalia exposed.

As a result of all this, Riley Gaines — not Thomas — has been vilified by the media and threatened by lunatics from coast to coast.  When she tried to speak at San Francisco State University, she was shouted down and physically assaulted, and, to rub insult into injury, the police on the scene did little to protect her.  In a sane world, Riley Gaines would be a folk hero, but in today’s woke world she’s a pariah.

None of this should be surprising to anyone, given that in America 2023, insanity masquerades as reality with very little pushback.  Parents who speak out at school board meetings are accused of being terrorists, while a mass murderer in Nashville is portrayed as a victim.  George Orwell’s world is now our world, a world where “war is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength.”

The truth is that Americans are suffering from a mass psychosis the likes of which the world has never before witnessed, and it didn’t come from a lab in Wuhan.  Rather, it came from a culture that has been in decline for decades, a culture that is now rotten to the core.

There are many factors that contribute to America’s mass psychosis, but I believe the number-one cause is the unrelenting pressure applied to otherwise sane people to participate in woke groupthink.  The incentive for them to fall in line is their desire to avoid mental, even physical, harassment.  Much of this is done through social media, but the pressure to conform can be felt everywhere, including at work, on television, and in academia.

Make no mistake about it, the wokesters’ goal is to dismantle civilization as we know it.  Everything normal people love about America must be destroyed, because leftists hate the concept of the proletariat being free to make their own decisions.  The radical left is laser focused on achieving a totalitarian grip on American society, a society where dissent is forbidden.

There are no easy answers as to how to cure the mass psychosis that has gripped the United States, but I believe it has to start with normal Americans refusing to acknowledge the accusations and threats coming from emotionally disturbed people.  The second step is to elect men and women to public office who are willing to prosecute those who break the law.  Not sanction them, prosecute them — and start by breaking down their doors in the middle of the night and putting them in handcuffs.  Democrats have already demonstrated that they believe this kind of action is both legal and appropriate.

When insanity becomes reality, you no longer have a country.  What you have are millions of emotionally disturbed people making up their own rules.  My message to them is simple:  You can call yourself a golden retriever, you can urinate on your neighbor’s bushes, you can even eat dog food if that’s your preference — but you’ll never be a dog!  If that makes you angry, talk to God about it.  I’m just the messenger.

Whether or not it’s too late to do anything about the destruction of the American Empire is up for debate, but if there is to be a serious course correction, a good time for sane people to start would be NOW.