(#5995) This too shall pass...

      Even if trumps burn our democratic republic to the ground it will survive. I know this because despite all the despair and demoralization, we know that chaos cannot rule indefinitely. There are too many of us who will not let the carnage of trumps prevail into infinity. There will come a correction and when it hits it will be decisive. Apparently we Americans didn't learn from our own history during the Civil War so we have to have another ripping apart of our country to remind us that the rights of man/woman extend to all not just to some. That equality, freedom, liberty, and justice are total and not open to compromise within the rule of law.
     But for now we must endure the cracks in our foundations of society in order to appreciate the advances we had previously made. It would have been much easier if we had just remembered, but that isn't how this is playing out. We also have found that we need to have laws that do not have allowances for those who are in public office. The rule of law must and should always remain beyond the manipulation of those who would abuse it. We are in this current situation because Supreme Court justices have lied under oath as well as Congressional representatives. The executive is the master liar and yet he is not held to any account for his betrayals of assurances and unethical hidden agendas.
     When our lawmakers are forced to face the law when they break the law without impunity, is when we will start to see what true democracy looks like. Not this current unrest that is only represented by threats of coercion and duress. My logic here is that the sooner we the people decide to stop being part of this charade of normalcy the quicker we get to stopping this self implosion. Because there will be no other outcome. We will either coalesce around each other to confront until we succeed or we continue to play along hoping all will get better on its own or someone else will do our duty for us. Like from the movie Shawshank Redemption, "get busy living or get busy dying".