Totally Goofy

Several years back I submitted a question to "Ask Marilyn", in the Sunday Magazine "Parade"-[May 21, 2006-and as relevant today, as then] but not really expecting that she would answer...according to the Guinness Book of World Records, Marilyn vos Savant has the highest recorded IQ [ever], and my question was: "It is obvious that our country is deeply divided: almost 50-50, judging. From the last election. Neither side sees any merit whatsoever in the programs of the other, and each side-is convinced that the other side has the dumbest ideas that ever came down the pike. Why are the two sides so far apart?" Without getting too deep into the weeds, I really wasn't crazy about her answer....but leave to the reader to judge for themselves...she was pretty much saying that since our politicians weren't shooting at each other that this evidenced a certain "civility" [see her response, herein]....I would only add, here, that the million woman march the day following Trump's inauguration--to protest his election--reflects a certain discontent with the current Republican ideology.....And Trump's assertion that the largest crowds in America history came to DC [a patent lie-and more Obama fixation], and just to see him at his inauguration-was a dead-ringer that we are in an ideological wasteland.....Indeed, in just a short month Trump has the rest of the world convinced that he is loose cannon [downright spooky with Kim III also a loose cannon]----Trump has time to redeem himself-but it is questionable if he has the psychic makeup to do so...the big money says....NOPE.....