Moody Monday: faith in USA democracy is lost

I'm not the only one who feels it this year, even in a new poll.

Ever since President Reagan ("government is the problem"), the Republican party has been convinced that government authority is broken, and they've been willing to break everything they touch in order to prove it.  They find ways to reduce the effectiveness of every service of government, from schools to environment to taxation to technology, even metric conversion.  Somehow, the Post Office remains in operation despite their best efforts through the Bush and Trump administrations to ruin it too.

"I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it."
- Ronald Reagan, U.S. President

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Unless we finally implement demarchy in the USA, I think I'll have to side with China on this one: USA democracy was lost to plutocracy.  I would also accept the peaceful separation of the USA as a solution, letting conservative states and liberal states go their separate ways as unique nations of their own.