You are totally right in your assessment of the crazy frenzy that is occurring here in the US. It is a mixture of train wreck and clown car, a scary situation where, to mix metaphors, the inmates are running the asylum, but compared to the "normal" folks out there the inmates actually look sane. Dang it, even my boyfriend of over twenty years has lost his sanity and I can't even reach over to him over this divide. This is very unsettling.