How has it has come down to this?

We have let two parties become so in control, and so corrupt that we no longer have a functional democracy.

We don't even have the ILLUSION of one anymore. We can't close our eyes and go about our lives in ignorant bliss.

This season has shone a spotlight on the corruption and rather than scatter like a cockroach it seems to bask in the openness of it.

I guess in some way it must feel good to no longer have to pretend to be what you are not.

Clinton, for example, with her "newfound" cross party support from the Republicans has gone into full Dino mode. It's like she has decided, "Well, I will never get the progressives to vote for me anyway, my Hillbots will excuse anything so screw it, I will pivot to Right not just center."

She was right. They already are proclaiming her wisdom in perfectly synced harmony. There really is nothing that could surface that could challenge the Faith of the true believer. Trump Says he could kill someone and his supporters would love him, he was right.

Clinton has the blood of THOUSANDS, and just the same. Point Clinton.

Our entire process appears to be rotten to the core. So what can we do about it? Can we save it?

And more importantly, is it even worth saving at this point?

The more I contemplate the thought of our nation fragmenting apart into a "North American Union" similar to the arrangement in Europe the more I go from finding it to be a negative idea to a potentially positive one.

Would it be so bad?

I don't know. It could be pretty damn unpleasant on the short term.

Or it could happen pretty peacefully and smoothly.

What I do know is what we have now sure isn't working for most of us so how much worse could it be?

I fear that we are at a point in our nation where we are playing Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun.

Something has to change.