No matter what happens - how do we as a country go forward with such a deep rift?

[Jirel]

38. We stay on guard for the next generation.

That is all we can do. We fight back to prevent evil from being done. We run for school boards and take back the brains of the youth for critical thinking, science, and basic decency. In all honesty, it is not impossible that some of us may have to shoot some of them in the face, if they try to do violence. We work, we vote, we run for office, we legislate, and we do it ruthlessly. We let them age out and die off, whether of their freedumb to not have health insurance, or the next pandemic(s). We walk away from brainwashed “friends” and family. We walk away from any remotely evangelical or catholic religion, and urge others to do the same.

The time for “nice” is long over. There is no healing malevolence.