Thank you for your article.  I am very concerned that we no longer have a functional democracy and this has been a long, long time in the making.  The three co-equal branches of government are so highly politicized that they are no longer functioning as the checks and balances envisioned by the founders. Further, our countrymen and women are pretty much pitted against each other with half of the country strongly antagonistic of the other half.  Last week, I read Ken Wilber's "Trump and a Post-Truth World" which I highly recommend.