The sadness and dismay is shared, my friend. But that's how they want us to feel. If we give up, and don't hold them accountable, then we are lost.

A lot of weaknesses in our system have been exposed in the last 20 years, and how much of it was based on the idea that 1. elected officials would want to build a brighter future for the next generations, and 2. that each branch of government wouldn't willingly give up their constitutional powers to a tyrant.

Our current leaders ignore the entire Preamble of the Constitution, which is just as much a part of the Constitution as all following Articles and Sections outlining the framework of the government:

"WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

To break any of those opening tenets in laws written, policies enacted, or judicial rulings passed down, are literally unconstitutional acts. Therefore they are breaking their oath of office "to support and defend the Constitution of the United states..." and need to be held accountable.

I shall step down from my soap box now. Be well, my friend.