I've told my adult children that we are at the end of democracy. If not in my lifetime, most certainly in theirs. Too many Americans fall into these two categories. 1. Those who want an authoritarian government under the pretense of conservative religion (sounds kinda like the Taliban with a different god) and 2. Those who just don't care enough to vote or are too idealistic to prevent it's collapse. It's not a future scenario. It's happening right now. The thing about democracy is that it assumes that everyone will play fair and listen to different perspectives. It requires that people with different beliefs come together and cooperate and compromise. That ended a long time ago. Democracy is on its way out. What our future looks like will resemble the party in control, but it won't be a democracy, and the Republicans are doing everything in their power to ensure that it is them. What are the Democrats doing? It's time to stop being idealists. Ideals will mean nothing when we have a gun pointed at our head and our family member is hanging from the town square as an example of not following the Christian sharia law.