Gotta admit it. My faith in democracy is badly shaken (though not broken)

[-misanthroptimist]

2. I feel the opposite.

If anything, my faith in democracy has been strengthened. Think about it: Democracy has been under coordinated, continuous attack from Republicans for about 50 years. They have consistently and with no shame lied to deceive voters; they have gerrymandered beyond all sanity; they have sold out their country by conspiring with our adversaries. That's not an exhaustive list even. All of this in furtherance of gaining or maintaining political power.

Their results for all corruption? They are minority in the House and Senate. The President, too, is a Democrat. They've made very little progress, if any, on a wide variety of issues that they hold dear. Democracy is still hanging in there, a bit battered -which seems logical- but still alive and in reasonable health.

It's been an incredibly poor return on their investments and hard work. Sure, they'll keep trying. Hell, they might even win and destroy democracy in America. But the amount of effort that they've already poured into their so far failing project indicates to me just how strong democracy is. Even if they are successful it's quite possible, probable even, that that success will be short-lived.