proportion into some doomsday international story about the death of white america's way of life. this is all you hear about on right wing raidia and rumble, they're killing us, that's the election narrative and this 12u6 trickles down destroying civil discourse, even at a local level. neighbors turn on neighbors. normally easy going elections turn into existential battles. it feels like there's republican bars and democrat bars, kmong ground ee roads largely because there's no common media ground anymore. it's as if america's been swallowed up by qanon conspiracy theories. freedom of expression feels trampled, muscled. and, remember, as all of this is happening, as democracy deteriorates in 2024, trump's enablers claim they're the ones protecting democracy. they think, or at least they pretend, they're upholding the declaration of independence. they cloak their autocratic