How can we ever have a healthy Democracy,

[ancianita]

13. Well I've learned that it's not about my 'side,'

and I've learned from my own and others' mistakes.

Yes, to keep up the good fight, make good trouble, is our long, neverending fight. We never let our opponents who don't wish us well believe that we sweat or are losing, even when we are. We fight when we're down; because when we're down, we are never out.

I wish more of the non-voting population will see their way to never go down without a fight, to always make the opponent respect them even as they lose.
That's what the Taliban have done to us. But. I don't want them to be the model for our pro-corporate Republican seditionists, and yet they act as if they have so much in common, don't they, when our American taliban are shallow and venal.

Yes, indeed we will see, my friend.
imo, People are made to feel worthy when we fight for them as if they are.
If they can internalize that 'yes we can' feeling, they can pass that on.
We have our daily example in what President Biden says and does. He dignifies people trapped even in their own non-legitimate suffering. Even misguided Republican leaders have been drawn away from their side by his sense of the fight for the soul of the nation.

Thank you for your thoughtful posts.