REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY OR AUTOCRACY?

America's more than 200 yr experiment as a Representative Democracy seems to be hanging by a thread.  Our system of government is under attack as never before and its continuation is in the hands of a 79 yr-old woman, Nancy Pelosi. 

Through misuse of the President's authority on National Security, refusing to obey laws, and having his aids refuse to honor subpoenas, President Trump has succeeded to become an autocratic president.*

A major part of the problem is Republicans in the Senate not being willing to act to rein in the President.  The shocking thing is that more than a third of the adult population seems to approve of the President's autocratic ways.  In fact, after President Trump's racist remarks about four women Representatives of color, his approval rating rose by 5 pts.**

It is curious in view of Trump's comments that the four women should go back to the countries they came from because 3 of the 4 Representatives were born in the U.S.   In the case of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, not only was she born in the Bronx, NY, but so was her father, and her mother was born in Puerto Rico so is an American citizen by birth.***

I am near the end of life so why should I care about whether America abandons Representative Democracy for an autocratic state?  But I do.  The biblical phrase, of Jesus on the cross, comes to my mind, "Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” "****

*http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2019/04/president-trump-our-de-facto-dictator.html

http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2019/06/president-trump-our-de-facto-dictator-ii.html
** https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/17/republican-support-for-trump-rises-after-racist-tweets-reutersipsos-poll.html
*** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez
**** https://biblehub.com/luke/23-34.htm