…is fatiguing. Democracy was not conceived to require the involvement of the public in the exercise of its people power 24/7 365. I got awake today before 7 am to take my daughter-in-law to FIU to study medicine, a family activity. I turned on NPR on the short drive over to pick her up and it was politics, all politics. It’s the second day of the Republican convention, I know. 'Tis the season to be poli. But it has been the political season for nine straight years, through the rain of spring and the sun of summer and the cold of winter, through holidays--everyday is a poliday. We have already had an assassination attempt. The entire nation is in a frisson. Democracy doesn’t work when it works like this.