“I wonder if when it goes so far the system completely breaks down and does not recover?”
Yours is the best, and most important, question concerning this event.
The answer seems to be: no one knows for sure.
Part of our collective future centers on a truth uttered by John Adams: “Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.”
A spiritual revival is certainly possible. Short of that, it doesn’t look too good. I am starting to lose hope that midnight basketball will solve our problems.
I guess anything is possible but a lot of things are not probable.
Yes, the success of this republic is conditional and those limits have been exceeded. We have allowed invasion and destruction falling victim to our own freedoms. Nothing short of confrontation can possibly change that now.
If an amicable divorce is possible that would seem to be best at this time to me.