Are You A Little Yippy?

 A great man once said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

Someone else said, "Be afraid. Be very afraid." Of course, this person had just witnessed her scientist boyfriend slowly transform into a human fly. Upon further reflection, this seems a little entomophobic. 

But currently we seem to be living in a climate of fear: pantophobia. The former game show host and the "author" the book The Art of the Deal seemed patronizingly aware of the economic terror he had unleashed over the past week or so. "I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy. You know, they were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid." For those of you unfamiliar with the term "yippy," you can probably find it somewhere within the three hundred seventy-two "non-fiction" pages of the book that made the former slum lord a legend in the minds of so many unquestioning minions. And in the mind of the man who rode that wave right past game show host and into the White House. 

Twice. 

So, we're all a bit "yippy" because great portions of our retirement savings have disappeared> A bit "yippy" because the rest of the world that used to see us as a pillar of strength and a port in the storm for the world's economy have suddenly turned against us? Yes, I would say that if "yippy" was really a word that I would count myself among those who are "yippy."

I am also a little "yippy" about the way we are deporting American citizens. I am more than a little "yippy" about putting a billionaire in a baseball cap with a chainsaw in charge of "government efficiency." I am a little "yippy" about our Constitution being ignored and shredded as the Artist of the Deal continues to distort our country into some twisted vision of his very own. I am more than a little "yippy" about the way the Second Trumpreich has stepped up their fear-mongering machinery, insisting that we be frightened by our fellow citizens for the way they choose to live. 

Land of the Brave? Land of the "yippy." 

I'm pretty solidly with the lady who had a human fly for an ex-boyfriend. Be afraid. 

Be very afraid.