We don’t live in a Republic anymore my FRiend.
We don’t have budgets. We have money being sent to wherever grifters want it to go.
We don’t have elections. Our elections have been hopelessly compromised and courrupted, and they don’t even bother to hide it.
We have Taxation Without Representation. They send our great grandchildren’s tax dollars to Ukraine, and they bathe in the kickbacks returned.
We don’t have rule of law. We have Soviet style show trials and kangaroo courts, with all the corrupted organs of government turned against the citizenry, and people being held as political prisoners.
you say this like it’s a bad thing.