A wonderful blend of Paradisians.

America and maybe the entire world is polarized. Therefore, I find that I'm an extremist. On the left. Because the right has become so very, very extreme. In another time, I'd be a moderate. Maybe even a Republican. But Republicans have jumped over a cliff. Fallen off the edge of the world. And so that makes anybody still residing on flat, solid land an extremist. In comparison. The world has gone crazy. Politically. Economically. Socially. I'm residing in an insane asylum. I have no choice. Other than when I escape/retreat to my cocoon. My hideaway. Even if I venture outdoors. Onto the street where I live. I encounter ultra conservative lunatics. The ones that rant and rave. Still clinging a little bit to the edge of the flat world. They are dangerosuly close to falling off. It's only a matter of time. Days, or maybe hours. That's all right. Just as long as they don't take me with 'em. Into the abyss. Later this year, I will leave the USA, and do as I did last autumn -- flee to the other side of the world. To Sardinia. To live with my Italian true love. In one of the last remaining paradises on Mother Earth. An island in the Mediterranean Sea. There I know socialists. And communists. And nature lovers. And free spirits. And fellow lovers of life. Yes, a wonderful blend of Paradisians. --Jim Broede