Are we losing our democracy?
A guest editorial in the NYT yesterday, May 8th, How Will We Know when We Have Lost Our Democracy ? by Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way and Daniel Ziblatt is enough to rattle anyone's cage. On Wednesday, May 6th I woke up to make coffee, get breakfast and while that was brewing I took my blood pressure. I have hypertension, take a daily medication that has not been that great at controlling it. My internist requested that I take my BP a couple of times a week for a more thorough check. On Wednesday morning it was so high, I panicked. I started out looking for a same day appointment - none available, then I made an appointment for June 18th. That wasn't going to do much when my blood pressure was shockingly high this minute. Finally, I had an extended telephone conversation with a triage nurse who was able to both calm me down and get a note to my doctor for the additional medication we had discussed. I picked up this medication on Wednesday evening a...