No, I don't want that either, nor do I think we deserve it, but I do think that we are complicit in where we are today for many minor, and complex reasons. I also believe through American fortunes of different kinds, some even beyond our control like geography, we have grown greatly complacent about the welfare our democracy.

What I've sort of taken away from all this tough discussion is this - that one point of the one that must not be named, and is no longer replying, is that we in the US have been largely untouched relative to other people and countries when it comes to the repercussions of the contradictory government have had over the years, while other countries have faced much more dire circumstances and even over different things within their own cultures.

Mostly my point was how we Americans have largely blown this wonderful experiment that was started in 1492 in many different ways. Most of them have been caused by Americans, American institutions, and other things. Things that are not pre-democracy at all, and we Americans as a whole have not been as diligent as we should have been to prevent ending up where we are today.

And if we have not been party to this, then how have we arrived where we have a US Supreme Ct now considering whether a US President has immunity for his or her behavior? Think of that for a minute to appreciate the full lunacy of that - how can ANY American believe that the founders and framers of this country, after fleeing a country with a king, then fighting like hell to remain independent would then turn right around and create a system that would create a King? How?  It makes no sense whatsoever. None.  But here we are.

And what is even scarier is that in 2020, 74 million Americans were voting for this same sort of lunacy.