I don't want to depress people, but try to zoom out a bit. 1. This is just one part of the slope from which the republic has been sliding down from anocracy

I don't want to depress people, but try to zoom out a bit. 1. This is just one part of the slope from which the republic has been sliding down from anocracy towards autocracy. 2. You, reading and trying to process this, are an exception. Now imagine that the vast majority of the public does not have any overview and is not aware, being smothered in us-vs-them vibes. 3. You, being a normal human being, trying to make sense of it, trying to see if you can interpret this as normal. When we see something alarming but don't get an `ACK` from our social system, we shut off the internal alarm. This is the original sin of the media rooms, as their role in democracy is to see the big picture; they should ACK, they should sound the alarm loud and clear.