I am disenfranchised. The very idea of America is becoming a fairytale. We are being asked to take things on “faith” when the facts are in direct opposition to it.
My twins used to play hide and  seek in the house and walk past the hider, pretending not to see her or hear her giggling, because they didn’t want the game to end.
On the one hand, our forefathers, the “original framers” are revered and accepted on faith to be wiser than Moses, and the constitution is as sanctified as is his second set of scrolls – until we need to look the other way and use the scroll to discriminate against somebody or a group of somebodies. Suddenly what they said was not what they meant, because they could not foresee the present situation, that we want to ignore or use as a bludgeon.         Yes, i am saying that America is a fairytale. There is no American Exeptionalsm. There is however a huge pothole of American Acceptionalism, that allows us to render truth mute in the name of Critical (Race, Religious, LBGTQ, guns, abortion, insurrection) Theory, and accept whatever status quo hides the big picture.
The Supreme Court has declared themselves sacrelegious, unquestionable and undisputable on any subject brought before them, yet the state of Texas and Florida choses to ignore their ruling at the border, and the state of Alabama choses to Interpret their ruling as they see fit. The federal government (Biden) is powerless to reign them in. The GOP (johnson) is powerless to even bring a vote before its own membership, in fear of being voted (trumpled) out of leadership.
So. I say again. America is a fairytale.