Our system of government is breaking

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23. I disagree. It's BEING broken, and we're going to stop it.

Huge difference. This nation won't fall while the Democratic Party stands.

I haven't read any of your other posts since you joined, but it sounds like you may be caught up in the current pervasive anxiety and may have already forgotten the recent huge messages sent by the elections of Obama twice and subsequently of our first female (Democratic) president, as well as -- just a month ago -- from the midterms!

It's helpful to realize just how strongly our government is still standing against over 3 decades years of attempts to corrupt and dismantle it by what the Republicans have become. They themselves are bringing an end to the era of conservative domination of government, and what they've done will be repaired, and our institutions strengthened against corruption, by good people acting on the same principles as those who came before us.

As for the changes in our nation itself in a time of massive change, they are huge and constantly ongoing, but that's not new. Meeting and managing to advance our wellbeing in the face of giant disrupting changes has been the story of our nation's entire existence. The industrial revolution began in England a quarter century before we declared independence. Planetary wellbeing has been advancing enormously ever since, but always bringing great anxiety due to change and uncertainly and definitely new problems we had to overcome well enough to continue. But we have been doing that.

These are scary times, but this big-picture pattern from the past right up to today is far too strong to just dismiss.