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america’s democracy was found unresponsive at home today …

American democracy was found unresponsive at home today by emergency officials called to investigate after family and friends had reported the patient to be acting irrationally recently.  Her collapse was predictable, loved ones say.

The initial diagnosis, after extensive probing, is that American democracy is suffering from the polarizing effects of Trumpism and Democratic Socialism. These two highly competing conditions are known to generate severe confusion, disorientation, amnesia, and ultimately, mind surrender, among other troubling symptoms. 

Invasive attacks from outside American democracy’s body are the next significant threat to the patient’s ability to survive her weakened state, officials say.  Once common sense and joint determination are compromised, foreign intervention in American democracy’s affairs becomes uncontrollably enticing to other ill-will-wishing infections.

Evidence of internal bipolar syndromes has been seen in abundance these past few weeks, according to witnesses.  The disorders explained are:

  • A heavy dose of Trumpism was not eradicated not long ago, as first thought, when fact witnesses were denied the opportunity to testify to the debilitating effects they had seen the patient experience from intentional diversions, obfuscation, and obstructions that are an anathema to American democracy.

  • Officials noted recently that in reaction to that failed treatment, American democracy has now been suffering from a dangerously rising temperature related to Democratic Socialism, a buffeting ailment more colloquially known as “The Bern.”

Outside experts have noted that when American democracy fails over an extended period to effectively address other irritating conditions such as exploding deficits, burdensome national debt, rapidly escalating annual interest payments, crushing student loans, foreign election interference, disappearing manufacturing capability, ignored immigration challenges, deteriorating job security, crumbling infrastructure, access to affordable healthcare, imperiled preexisting health condition coverage, global pandemics, climate change, and unbalanced trade to name a few issues, paralyzing conditions such as Trumpism and The Bern undoubtedly flourish and irreversibly overwhelm a beloved patient. Doctors are also warning that The Bern condition could potentially mutate into the AOC Syndrome.

The prescribed treatment called for in cases such as Trumpism and Democratic Socialism is truth, integrity, and thoughtfulness - not impulsively reactionary - healing benefiting all Americans equally, and IV stat.  According to knowledgeable specialists, cold, hard reality must set in with the body politic; otherwise, denial is the most dangerous symptom to ignore.

Previous case studies have proven that conditions such as Trumpism or Democratic Socialism, when in fact ignored, can and will be lethal, as history shows, to American democracy, especially in her third century of life.  Experts ominously warn that the incubation cycle for these extreme conditions is concise, as have Founders long ago. 

Treatment protocols to emulate have been delivered in the past by Drs. Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Roosevelt 26, Roosevelt 32, Kennedy, Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43, most notably.  Selfless dedication to the public good is essential.

Reasonable party members from all walks of life today express hope that the patient will survive and soon recover.  In the meantime, they ask for your prayers and determined moderating action to combat this mortal political disease.

American democracy’s condition is critical.