On the tipping point of our democracy

What will become of it?

David Cook
4 min readNov 27, 2022
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The last six years have been a fever dream of political nightmares.

Antagonist alert: You may not like what I have to say and I don’t care.

What has happened to humanity when there are people in positions of power who want nothing more than to light a match and watch our democracy burn to the ground?

Power and greed are not new. They are as old as time. There have always been, and there will always be, powerful people with disproportionate amounts of control over the rest of the world. But they are also very predictable.

Today, that seems almost refreshing. With predictable tyrants, you could form coalitions and collective strength in support of the common citizen. For decades, unions were the answer to the unchecked power of big corporations. But unions won’t save us from the new brand of evil.

Enter the MAGA-Q Crazies

A growing coalition of marginalized middle and lower-income Americans, those most affected by stagnated wages and the rising cost of basic living, are backing the most radical narcissistic hoard of power-hungry refuge ever to disgrace our halls of congress. The bar for human decency and moral values has been nailed to the floor. And they found a comfy home…

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