Greetings, Merry Mystics!

Another little political song today. There’s a lot of spoken word in this one. (I’ve been thinking about Gil Scott-Heron’s classic from 1971, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.”)

When I first heard people accusing their political opponents of TDS, it seemed to be just a humorous put-down. More recently, though, it seems to be a serious attempt to classify political dissent as mental illness. Last month, in a Justice Department court filing, they accused the National Trust for Historic Preservation of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome, commonly referred to as TDS.” And when I posted this video on Facebook, more than one comment insisted that TDS is a real mental illness, and I shouldn’t be making fun of it!