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CULT – The second listed definition of a cult is “Obsessive devotion or veneration for a person, principle, or ideal. The object of such devotion.”

NARCISSISM – “Excessive admiration of oneself.”

SOCIOPATH – “Mental health condition in which a person consistently shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others.”

You may now, reader friends, be wondering just exactly what to make of the aforementioned definition. Now that, I’ll leave up to you.

‘TIS TRUE – “A mob is a place where people go to get away from their conscience.”

END of DEMOCRACY? – From the book “Caste – The Origins of Our Discontents,” by Isabel Wilkerson, she included a piece by “The Guardian,” an English newspaper, in 2016.

Here was a candidate “so transparently unqualified for the job that his candidacy seemed more like a prank than a serious bid for the White House.”

And “Both candidates were white, born to the country’s historic dominant majority. But the woman candidate represented the more liberal party made up of a patchwork of coalitions of, roughly speaking, the humanitarian-minded and the marginalized.

“The male candidate represented the conservative party that in recent decades had come to be seen as protecting an old social order benefiting and appealing largely to white voters.”

We know who won, of course. The electoral vote, that is, but lost the popular vote by three million. That’s our system. Try explaining that to other democratic nations in the world. Good luck.

Then, “In the ensuing months as the new president pulled out of the treaties and entreated dictators, many observers despaired of the end of democracy and feared for the republic.”

It would seem, would it not, that we are on the cusp of such a situation again?

May Divine Providence have mercy on our country.