One thing I've learned over the last six years is how delicate democracies can be.

We have a lot of fascists in the US, we always have, even before there was a name for it. In Lincoln's day they were Confederates, in FDR's day they listened to Father Coughlin and Charles Lindbergh. Now they're MAGA.

For simplicity's sake I'll just call them fascists. Fascists love chaos, they love when people are suffering, because they recognize that as long as they can blame others, chaos and suffering help to enable fascism to take hold. Chaos is probably the easiest thing to create in a society, so that's what they do. They create chaos. They "drown government in a bathtub," starving it of its power to act, then whip up public rage at government inaction. They sabotage attempts to fix the problems they themselves complain about, like Veteran's care, or the Southern border. They attack women. They engage in targeted information warfare. They assault the truth, with the clear and orchestrated intent of making us doubt that there is such a thing as the truth. They break things and people, and then move on to the next insult to reality. 

"Destabilization," they call it. And they know how to do it—see the endless list of places it was done. Russia's good at it too. Chile, the Balkans, El Salvador, Hungary, etc...

To me, we are all now riding in a bus at high speed, with failing brakes, on a high mountain road with cliffs on both sides, and while I may have many disagreements with the driver, I trust that he is both as competent and sane as we are going to get, so I will do everything I can to help and protect him as best I can, at least until we get off this mountain pass. And overall, I've considered Biden to be as competent a president as I can remember. We're even seeing a rebirth of sorts to the labor movement.