I am 67yo and this is the first time I have felt really afraid for our country and the world. As an activist in the 60's-70's & a liberal, I never felt then, as I do now, that the people in power actually wanted to end representative democracy... I just believed we disagreed, even with riots, we seemed to be moving jaggedly in the right direction, when I read books set between WWI and WWII I see here and now but now is more dangerous given the insidious way technology can be used and not seen....politics should be general social chat but it truly has become an Emotional issue as we are being "led" by the emotions of a leader, not the policy/politics of a leader.