As an attorney, I am familiar with the concept of a legal fiction.  That’s where facts are assumed or created by a court in order to impose some legal rule.  However, every four years we are treated a familiar litany of election year fictions courtesy of the Democrat Party.  They create supposed problems that don’t exist, and they tell us only they can solve them.  The Democrat playbook is a continual search for victims, real or imagined, who can be saved from the clutches of those heartless Republicans only by electing another Democrat.  You could say the the entirety of the Democrat presidential year playbook is a work of fiction.  It certainly is detached from reality.  In fact, Democrats live in an alternative universe where all logic has ceased to exist. Democrats piously warn of the termination of social programs should a Republican be elected, while ignoring the fact that no social program has been cut, much less done away with, in the last 5 Republican administrations.   The top issue cited by voters in every poll is the lousy economy.  The Obama Recovery always was a fraud.  92 million people are out of the workforce, and a new recession is predicted.  The Democrat solution?  Increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour.  Now, you may recall, when George Bush was President, the Dems said that “hamburger flipper” jobs were not real jobs.  Under Obama, they are the only jobs, so they’re very real.  Now, of course, a $15 minimum wage forces employers to fire workers and replace them with machines.  This is already happening in States that adopted the plan, but don’t burden Democrats with the facts, they want to impose it nationwide.  We face an ever increasing risk of Islamic terrorism, but Democrats say any restriction on Muslim entry to the U.S. is racist.  In fact, any attempt to impose any type of border controls also is racist.  Violent crime rates are escalating in our cities.  The Democrat solution?  Blame racist cops.  What, the cops are black too?  That’s irrelevant, black lives matter.  But that doesn’t make sense.  Aha, racist.  Huh?  If you’re getting the impression that the Democrat world view is, for want of a better term, warped (I almost said perverted), then you ain’t seen nothing yet.  The latest election year fiction is the ongoing dispute in North Carolina and elsewhere over a crucial civil rights issue which has caused narrow-minded Republicans to display their discriminatory nature  – what bathroom should I use.  It all has to do with rest room accommodations for so-called transgender individuals.  Their anatomy identifies them as one gender, but they identify with the other.  These are the T’s in the LGBT fraternity, or is it sorority?  That’s the problem, they’re not sure.  We are led to believe that as much as 0.3% of the population are transgender individuals, so we can safely assume that the number is much smaller.  These individuals, regardless of anatomy, regardless of attire, and regardless of appearance, want to be able to use the public restroom set aside for the gender with which they identify at the given time.  Needless to say, this position is disfavored by many of those afflicted by logic, common sense, or a sense of propriety, as the prospect of having one’s daughter or wife enter a ladies room only to find what appears to be a 6’5″ man trimming his beard is disturbing, to say the least.  North Carolina passed a law which requires individuals to use the bathroom which corresponds to their birth gender.  Sounds reasonable, but not so fast.  The federal government wants to require public facilities to allow transgender people to use whatever restroom they may choose.  The Feds say, you better comply, or bad things will happen, which is an effective tactic perfected by organized crime.  In the case of North Carolina, the Feds will deny the State University $1.4 billion in educational aid, and will threaten $800 million in federal school loan guarantees. (And you were wondering why it was so important for the Feds to take over all college loan programs).  North Carolina sued the Feds, and the Feds sued the State.  Attorney General Lynch, no less, this week compared the N.C. bathroom law to Jim Crow laws in the old South.  Those were the laws, passed by Democrats, that prevented black people from voting, patronizing restaurants, and using public facilities.  These laws led to lynchings, beatings, mass jailings, and a general denial of basic human rights and dignity for an entire race.  During that time, the African-American physician who invented blood plasma, died in the South after a traffic accident because he wasn’t allowed to be treated at the whites-only hospital.  Attorney General Lynch equates the N.C. bathroom law to that.  She should know better.  She says we must accord dignity and respect to transgender people.  No argument here, but why must it come at the expense of the dignity and respect of the remaining 99.7% of the population?  She says these transgender people have already suffered.  Of that I have no doubt, but why must the rest of us suffer?  Of course, the Democrats have embraced the bathroom issue as the latest assault on civil rights.  They will use it for electoral purposes.  You either toe the line or you’re a homophobe.  Attention Democrats and all other warped individuals – this issue is not about politics, it’s about plumbing.  General Lynch, don’t insult our intelligence and the memory of true civil rights pioneers.  You’re right about one thing, using a bathroom is one of the most private functions.  Transgender identifying people should keep it private.  It’s not an act of political courage.  You’re not breaking down barriers.  You’re not the new freedom riders or Rosa Parks.  You just need to take a leak.  Take it and move along.  The rest of us value our dignity too.