Deliberate. And under the circumstances I’m not opposed to Poland defending their airspace against Russia. Drawing a hardline in the sand is the only way to stop people like Putin.

Can and increasingly are willing to. It’s no longer a nuclear option reserved for extreme cases.

Broadly speaking, I don’t think folks should rush to shoot down planes. Accidents happen. But it’s naive to think these recent incursions have been accidents, especially considering how the war has everyone at a heightened state of vigilance. These aren’t casual flights, Putin is probing for weakness.

Yes and no. The two parties are different but they’re both politically Right Wing. So cut from the same cloth but made into different outfits. They both believe at their core that a societal elite is best suited to rule but the Democrats believe in a bigger more inclusive elite than Republicans.

Democrats lived in denial that they could ride being “the lesser of two evils” forever but eventually as things got worse and worse people started becoming numb to it

Was it a democracy

Well, yes. Both the ancient forms of governance resembling what we call democracy and the Greek system that gives us the word Democracy typically excluded people to various degrees. Don’t take that as a value judgement, I support anything that enfranchises more people, not less but I won’t try to redefine words