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All true Amy. I think democracy wins this week, I hope anyway. We will see how the future unfolds. I'm on my legislators as much as I can with my thoughts. That's all I can do. Well enough for today, I don't like to fill the journal with this either. It does help talking to out of towners like you. Appreciate the reach out!I can well imagine. Some craven stuff. It’s confronting for a non-US citizen.
Philosophically speaking (as I like to) all modern democracies or democratic republics are built on ‘magical’ foundations. I did a lot of my academic work in that exact zone of thought. Simplifying things a lot, it’s a logical truth that the very structure of a democracy requires (demands even) that it is vulnerable to being undone from within. That has to be possible or it is not a democracy. When the reality of that possibility becomes so raw as it has lately it is extremely frightening because it exposes this constitutive fracture (that we live with every day). And as it’s been fueled by misinformation and disinformation (deliberate misinformation), as you say, it is more scary because it feels like that breach could be taken advantage of by facism or dictatorship. Which it could. That’s the fundamental - and necessary - risk of democratic constitutional foundation.
I don’t think any democratically elected government is about to be held out of power, not this week anyway. But we may witness more cravenness before things are done.
We’re not supposed to talk politics in the journals so I I’ll shut up now... but not without sharing a quote from the west wing which has been playing in my mind a lot these last weeks.
“What would you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those of its citizens who would seek to destroy it?”
“God bless America”.
Sending so much love and strength to you otter, and all my democracy loving American 420 friends.