Looking back in history I wonder if things are really worse now than they were before. There was surely a lot of animosity from the start, citizens were divided about whether to revolt or remain loyal to the crown. There was gross income inequality and the Constitution was written for and by wealthy landowners. Slavery was a fact of life for the first half century of our history and then there was the Civil War...Horrible times that tore the nation apart for decades. Then the rise of the robber barons followed almost immediately by the First World War. Then the Roaring Twenties! Followed by the Great Depression which didn't wind down until the Second World War. Then Korea and Vietnam. Dick Nixon, race riots and I've barely scratched the surface of a history born in turmoil and mostly raging at a full boil since its inception.
Is it the demise of our system or just another chapter? Just business as usual in the good old USA?

Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...