This is long and somewhat ranting so consider yourself warned.
What is shocking to me is the lack of intellectual curiosity about what is going on.
Every anti-Trump operation has proven to be false yet still pushed on multiple levels. Yet there is video evidence of Hunter Biden with Russian hookers, illicit drugs, and numerous video and other communications revealing the influence peddling of Hunter and its links to Joe. You have many people going to prison for 7+ years for nothing but trespassing in the capitol in which many were let in. You have a bill that wants to fund 85,000 new IRS agents to gain an estimated 20B years in funds when you have a government that by many watchdogs and standards wastes or loses hundreds of billions via waste/fraud/abuse every year (remember when Rumsfeld admitted the Pentagon lost 1.3T?) You have a President who, according to the left, is morally superior to the one who left office but his daughter's published diary states she was taking showers ("probably inappropriately"..her words) with her father and was likely sexually abused as a child (her words) and yet nobody wants to talk about it. You have a government apparatus consisting of an administration, military leaders, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies doing everything they can to paint half of the country as racists nazi's. We have technology available to make all elections safe and be concluded within two hours of polls closing yet we have politicians and others peddling the notion, without evidence, that voter ID's are somehow suppressing voting. You have two parties full of politicians that have spent over 30 T dollars more than they have taken in (or several hundred thousands per taxpayer) with little or nothing to show for it and which is so extensive that it can never be paid back. You have energy independence thrown away by people who have wanted you to believe for 50+ years that the "climate" is an existential threat despite not one of the drastic things that they predicted having ever come to fruition. You have the highest paid govt employee, now documented, blatantly lying on multiple occasions about a virus, it's orgins, and the response to benefit himself and the largest pharma companies in world. We have an administration who states the "border is secure" despite over 5 million illegals entering the country over last two years...or approx the size of the entire population of Ireland...and see no economic detriment to such activity. We have a uniparty segment who insists on engaging in forever war campaign's without logic, fiscal constraint, or conclusion that seem to only benefit and enrich the MIC and their political supporters while killing hundreds of thousands of innocents. Finally, you have a media apparatus so full of conflict of interest that they refuse to report on anything above in a substantial way at all. And when they do it is so obviously so one sided that it can only be considered as propaganda..all the while they cheer for your cancellation from work or prosperity along with restriction and even removal of first and second amendment rights from anyone the opposes the narrative viewpoint and even labels them as "fascists"?
And despite all that and the current economic turmoil, record crime, lack of truth/transparency, and rapidly declining quality of life around world I have family, friends etc who are ready to vote again for their own destruction and that of their children. To that I say: it's over. We have reached peak prosperity in the US. The Rubicon has been crossed so far on the debt level that normality can no longer return. The govt cannot print us into prosperity because the debt level is too heavy. If you vote for expansion of government at any level you are just exacerbating the process of decline because, in the end, they are powerless and unwilling to help you. For example, the taxes I pay for property and school district tax alone are equivalent to 60% of my mortgage payment. So even if my house were paid off, I would still owe equivalent to 60% of my payment in taxes....and there is a levy on ballot again in November to take even more. If I lost my income due to situation/health etc do you think they would be understanding about not paying my property taxes? No, they would be filling paperwork to take my house. Now, lets say that just 5-7% of population was in same boat. What do you think the aggregate impact would be? These are the consequences that lead to the situations of the original article.
The only saving grace would be a return to a Christian foundation as a guiding light. If we, collectively, continue to turn away from that you are likely to see suffering and conflict you never imagined in your lifetime and certainly that of your children. My advice is read Matthew 24 and it will become clear that Christians will be the scapegoat. Ten years ago, DHS published a list of things that could be red flagged as signs of domestic terrorism. One of them was belief in book of Revelations, the anti-christ, and religious end of world scenarios. Or really anything that made you believe your individual rights/opinions supersede the will of the government. That outrageous notion is, of course, the basis of the countries founding and constitution. But who needs a constitution when you have bureaucrats and intellectuals who know what is best for everyone. Peaceful, God fearing people, need to be bold enough to question things and pray for the truth to be revealed no matter what your political persuasion. But that requires active seeking and not waiting around because by then it will be way too late.