I agree with the first sentence of the original post. Our republic is done. We did have a good run.
Where I disagree (and I hate to sound like a broken record because I've said this countless times, especially recently) is that it's not about Democrat vs Republican. That is the false paradigm that the powers-that-be WANT us to be stuck in.
We've been subverted (slowly and gradually) by globalists who control and have infiltrated both major parties. And this goes back many years. Their plan has been in the works for a long time.
I remember reading the book 'Behold A Pale Horse' by William Cooper in the early 90's, and that book thoroughly laid out their strategies and agendas, and amazingly so much of what he wrote about decades ago is now happening before our eyes.
I've said this so many times, but as long as people are busy looking horizontally and fighting each other, the criminals who run this world will continue to move their plans forward.
Speaking of traitors, it doesn't matter if one has an (R) or a (D) by their name. Can we stop being fooled by a mere letter? Here is George Bush senior plainly promoting the NWO, listen to what he is saying. (This was just one speech, there are many others.)
The filthy Democrats are hand in glove with the Globalists.
Yes, the Democrat politicians are. Or probably most of them. But as far as regular people, voters, if we were to do a poll asking them if they would support an Orwellian, totalitarian world government / surveillance state ran by criminal oligarchs, I kinda doubt that most of them would be for that.

That's why the powers-that-shouldn't-be continually divide us, not just D vs R but black vs white, men vs women, christians vs nonchristians, etc, etc. The PTSB are constantly pitting groups against each other because it distracts us and keeps the attention off of
them. And because if all regular people were to unite against the corrupt powers who are basically at war with all of us, imo... then it makes it that much harder for them to conquer us. Divide and conquer is the name of the game for them.