I don't know if we can recover. There seems to be a strong trend towards the breakdown of large societal systems, and no appreciable efforts towards reformation

I don't know if we can recover. There seems to be a strong trend towards the breakdown of large societal systems, and no appreciable efforts towards reformation. If very basic things like posting the laws of the state on your website receives this kind of response, then what hope do we have of tackling major problems? I used to be much more of an incrementalist, confident that the hard, slogging work of slow political activism could lead to a surprising amount of change over the long term, and I was dismissive of catastrophists who just threw up their arms and declared that everything was futile. But now, half of my life I have just seen the political process in the US grind to a complete halt, with no realistic path towards any major reforms. This kind of stasis is not sustainable in a world that is changing as much as it is, and I fear that the resolution will not be the un-gumming of the political system... it will be the collapse of US society into something unrecognizable.