Jim, we the people are just the outside looking in. All that I can do is pray for those who err, for those who keep secrets that should be known, and those whose wrongs go unknown. Some never succumb to the easy money that corrupts. Others, having no way to earn a fortune that an election costs, find ways to get what they think they want. Only God knows everything that is done for earthly powers.
Robert Burns said it best, when he said something to the effect that, "O that some Power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as other see us! It would from many a blunder free us. ~
Somehow, our country went from free speech to desired incarceration of the opposite parties. I think it started with the "God is dead" movement. People lost their faith not only of the Almighty God, but of each other as well. Many of us pray that things go well for the nation while letting anger guide us. The end result is that the people are powerless. And some of us don't like that end, if not all of us. I just don't know.