The End of Democracy in America?

It’s almost unanimous.  Not totally, but close enough.  Nearly everyone, Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives, dogs, and cats, is vehemently condemning 20 or so Republicans who are holding back the election of a new Speaker of the House.  “Terrorists,” they have been labeled, among other things.  As if the whole world is going to end if it takes a week to put somebody at the head of the House of Representatives.

Has everybody gone mad?  Was Rome built in a day after all?  You’d think it was, given that this Speaker election must happen RIGHT NOW, or the country will crumble.  I expect the Democrats and their media cohorts to condemn everything Republicans do; that politics.  But Republicans are joining them, and that is bad news indeed.  Can we have a little calm, please?  My thoughts:1.  The 20 House Republicans are doing exactly what is supposed to be done in a democratic republic!!  Please let me repea …