Elections to decide who will control Congressional majorities in the House and Senate are less than seven weeks away, and this calm before the political storm is as good a time as any to analyze the state our government’s most powerful branch—the people’s Congress. Specifically, why exactly do we have two chambers that are elected the same way, with one being less accountable to the people and yet more powerful than the other?

Americans are in a fog. I don’t have any other way of explaining what is going on. For the most part, otherwise sensible thinking people cannot put two and two together and come up with four.

When Benjamin Franklin was asked, following the Constitutional Convention, what kind of government our new nation would have, he replied, “a Republic, if you can keep it!” If you asked the average citizen today, most believe we are a democracy. Few people understand the significant difference between a democracy and a republic, and yet this is one of the most fundamental principles that we must embrace today in protecting freedom.

Most people know that I am against Obamacare because it hurts senior citizens in so many ways. I’ve been following the 2014 election races and praying for the candidates who oppose Obamacare. Here are a few items of advice for Anti-Obamacare candidates and their supporters.

The “Chinese curse”, “May you live in interesting times,” apparently has gained control of our minds. As if drugged or hypnotized, we stared, blinking at television screens as the President of the United States of America told us, “ISIS is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents.” The fact that it was the president who said this convinces me the lunatic fringe is no longer on the fringe. It’s right there in the heart of the matter, ensconced in the seat of power. Indeed, these are interesting times.

I don’t get it, play it again Sam. Are you kiddin me? Just how many more times do we, the American public, need to see the elevator thriller in Atlantic City? I mean, at least the one in Manila had two contestants of somewhat equal weight. And yet how many times was that replayed?