Photograph Source: Mike Cline – Public Domain

Discussions about “tipping points” have been getting plenty of coverage in the last few years as the planet hurtles forward in a climate crisis we seem incapable of stopping. Ice caps and glaciers are melting, sea levels rising more rapidly than expected, acidification of the oceans, and vast wildfires sweep the globe as the Sixth Mass Extinction event wipes species from existence at a sickening pace.

What’s not been normally referred to as such is the “tipping point” we have now reached in the governance of our nation. But make no mistake, what’s going on right now with the would-be king in the White House fully qualifies as a tipping point — from democracy and adherence to the law and Constitution to a dictatorship under an individual who claims he is “done playing by the rules” and now turns our own military against we, the people.

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