> makes me question if we are even a functioning democracy The US has not been a functioning democracy for a very long time, if it ever even was. Don’t despai

> makes me question if we are even a functioning democracy The US has not been a functioning democracy for a very long time, if it ever even was. Don’t despair! Plenty of people have fulfilling and happy lives in non-democracies. But it’s important to be realistic about the chances of anything about the political system fundamentally changing.