Is America Headed for a Strong-Man Government?

  News item: Nearly one in three Americans believe it might be necessary to take up arms against the government.

   News item: More than half of all Americans believe a civil war will break out in the coming years.

   News item: The majority of Americans believe the day will come when America will cease to be a democracy.

   News item: More than 40 percent of Americans believe that "having a strong leader for America is more important than having a democracy." (Surely they cannot be preferring a strong-man government, but who knows. If Trump were their strong man, perhaps they do prefer a strong-man government.)

   News item: Forty-seven percent of Republicans believe what happened on Jan. 6 was a legitimate protest. (Are they only suggesting they believe the election was a fraud, or are they supporting the violence that took place?)

   News item: U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger says the insurrection "represents the greatest effort to overturn the will of the people, and to conspire against American democracy that we've ever had, frankly, since the Civil War."

   Can the polling taking place be correct? Are we really headed toward losing our freedom? For my part, I think we are going to be O.K., even if these things happen. Nevertheless, I find it all shocking.