GWiz2038,

  OK. You're excused.
    But  I guess women, like men, are untrue - you can't have it all. You can't have democracy if you take it for granted, letting the corrupt establishment slide the nation down the slope of greed, corruption, narcisssism, arrogance, and hypocrisy.
   But who needs democracy? You do when your husband runs off with the kid and you can't afford a lawyer to get custody. You when you want rapists to be punished. If your kid gets arrested for pot. If you get bit by a pit bull.

   Being married with kids, house,  mortgage, mother-in-law is the most conservative trip in the world. So please don't ask why North America has been moving always to the right wing down that slippery slope until we've reached close to rock bottom with Trump - it's folks like you, self-deceived about "liberal democracy" when it's really been gone for quite some time;  pretending everything is hunky dory and wanting more and more of it, while most of the world suffers to survive.