The biggest problem with democracy these days is a failure of education. According to Trump, the American economy is in shambles, Kamala wanted to imprison normal Republican voters, and cats and dogs are rapidly being hunted to extinction. The list goes on and on: fake pandemic, stolen election, migrant crime wave, space lasers, stable genius, not obese, "there wouldn't be a war" etc etc etc

Here's the thing: we don't equip far too many of our citizens with the ability to sniff out these lies. I think there are other countries that do a better job, notably Finland which has been effectively dealing with large scale Russian misinformation for a long time, but clearly this problem is not unique to America. Most trump voters actually value freedom, equal opportunity, fair rules i.e. liberal values. But they've been brainwashed to the point that liberal is a dirty word and everyone else is out to get them.

Either they come to their senses, or we all go down with them. I'm hoping we can take the former route without too much catastrophe first