What Keeps You Up At Night?

An op-ed in yesterday's Wall Street Journal addressed the grim reality that anxiety is rising for most Americans, especially among young people. Emergency room visits and recent federal surveys concur that mental health issues have soared significantly in recent years. Gee, I wonder why.

The author of the piece cited several reasons, including Covid, climate change, wokeness (fear of being cancelled) and the increased use of cannabis. Oh yes, and the very existence of Donald Trump. 

None of those do it for me. My anxiety stems from not knowing who's really running the government, since it's obviously not the doddering old fool in the Oval Office or the cackling brown lady who is good for nothing. So who is it? Not anyone any of us voted for, that's clear. At least not in the last election.

That's what keeps me up at night.