The American scream

The seams is that no one knows exactly what it will look he problem with living in a country whose democracy is in danger of coming apart at the like when and if the seams finally burst, or how toxic the sociopolitical stuffing that emerges will be.

- Jonathan Kronstadt

I suppose January 6 was a quick peek inside the maelstrom of a fallen democracy, and the 60-odd court challenges to the 2020 election were a gentle pat compared with the sledgehammer to the head our institutions will take if Crazy Orange Grandpa and his enablers wind up in the White House instead of the Big House, where they all belong.

With the pandemic largely in the rearview, we're trying to regain some semblance of normalcy, despite the coming political earthquake. We do the most normal things we can in the most normal ways we can, mostly because 1) people still need to pay their bills, and 2) it cuts down on all the screaming.