For anyone with even a slight knowledge of history can see, humanity has been down this road so many times before. Societies get lazy and stupid and allow a dictator to take charge. This never ends well, but it seems the US electorate has so many low information voters combined with an archaic and easily rigged electoral college system that is on the verge of allowing this sad scenario to play out once again.

And it certainly doesn't help that we have a kind of asymmetric warfare in our media, with the right spewing a constant barrage of lies and propaganda (helped along by Russia), and a mainstream media that is trying way to hard to 'both sides' it. Back in the day of real journalism and three networks it just wouldn't have been possible to create the MAGA madness and give an idiot like Trump a chance to get anywhere near the Whitehouse.

Oh, then toss Citizens United into the mix with its infusion of so much toxic money... it sort of feels like our democracy is ******.