What democracy. No one wants to say that what we have is a cult and a regime. The elite privileged are eternally focused on saving democracy. They have a vested interest in that they could control the system if they could win it back. Does it matter if they win it back.

No.

The problems of the culture will still be there. The problems of the culture wars will still be there. The problems of cultural divides and assimilation will still be there.

Democracy went out the door a long time ago. If we only work hard enough together, and send the people with answers money, we might not succumb to rage. We have been enraged for hundreds of years. We fear chaos, but we are the thing we fear. We fear ourselves more than the stranger who came to town.

Saving democracy is denial.

We don’t stand on the brink of civil war. We haven’t slid down the slippery slope. It’s not that simple.

We are civil war.

We need to own it. Can you name a single regime that articulated respect for anyone other than themselves. There is no Fort Sumpter. But there is climate change, and the injunction that we are not sweeping the forest floor with brooms.

We rely upon disingenuous oratory to divide us as if we needed oratory. No one comes close to Lincoln. There is no bringing us together. We have a regime that pounces. The opposition pounces back. That is not democracy. We are obscene.

The middle-class is locked and loaded. The military is watching all of this, and taking notes. They will need them.