This has been a frog trapped in a long heating pot situation. Winning at any cost. That's the disease. The powerful people at the top see democracy as a game t

This has been a frog trapped in a long heating pot situation. Winning at any cost. That's the disease. The powerful people at the top see democracy as a game to be won, not a nation to help. It's been like this for a long time. The Newt Gringich gang in congress, with the Hastert Rule, to never even allow considering or talking about an idea unless you already know you'll have a big win: that's a major hinge here. That was a new temperament for our highest bodies, a twist. And having gobshite terror-mongering low-brow Fox News, brain-scrambling your population. Telling them to live in fear of what's happening, to be afraid afraid afraid. And now it's not even baiting enough. The hunger for red meat grew, the mania worked & spread, and even more extreme providers of outrage & programming have emerged. Whats happening now traces back back back, is a consequence of how one side has long conducted themselves & how they go about the mission. They know they will never win a popular anything in America ever again. The conservatives are roundly outvoted & outnumbered. The demographics as we age will continue to worsen thensituation. Polarizing & being detached, wrapping madness around yourself like a warm blanket, is the only seeming tactic for dealing with the disonnance of being ever less popular, perceived as ever worse and ever worse.