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This country will never be destroyed; it's too stubborn to destroy itself.

we may go out with a whimper and not a bang.

Don't you all feel relieved that have personal choice?

I say that we "can't destroy ourselves" because the Constitution wouldn't allow it (I believe).

We have an excellent system of "checks and balances" which offset attempts at tyranny by either the Executive, Legislative, or Judicial branches.

I love your optimism Kraftie. And I too have great faith in the way the checks and balances were set up. But he's got congress and the supreme court and that covers the playing field.

And I am scared of the current trend.

But this thread I believe was started by a teen, so I don't want to discourage the OP. More power to you, and may your generation do better than ours. I am cheering you on!

I'm afraid that someone, someday, will convince enough Americans that we don't need those checks and balances.

Congress will continue to be its Obstructionist self. This fact, alone, serves to derail Trump considerably. He hasn't gotten funding for his "wall" yet.

Let's see what happens this year with the mid-term elections.

I have noticed that many people who start off conservative on the Supreme Court tend to moderate their views as time passes. Of course, Clarence Thomas will never budge.

It should be remembered that John Paul Stevens, put in the court by Nixon, was a conservative when he started. By the time he retired, he was the most liberal member of the Supreme Court---perhaps even more liberal than people like Thurgood Marshall.

I’m too much of a pessimist to believe that the Constitution will stop the demise of the USA. Remember, it was We, the people that put him there in the first place. Menkin was absolutely right when he made his quip about the intelligence of the American Electorate. The electorate, educationally, has hit rock bottom, and will sink even lower than that..MARK MY WORDS!

I had a manager when I was still driving for Pizza Hut who made two tours of ‘Nam. He was of the opinion that this country needs to have a leader that would turn this country into a totalitarian dictatorship to wake people up to what the have lost. While I haven’t seen the dirty old man, as we employees lovingly called him (and he was a damn good manager, despite his quirks) in a few years, deep down, he was right!

H.L. Mencken probably said those words in the 1930s. The USA is still intact. We've had worse crises.....