Americans had lost our emotional connection to democracy, a sense of why it matters to us & to the world. Taking it for granted we failed to tend to it; having failed to tend to it we now see it threatened. We can consider this a wake-up call. We were sleeping & now we’re waking.

We have never had Democracy. It took a corrupt president and a cowardly congress to show us how we have failed. Sometimes I find this too painful to look at.