Letter: Our democracy is decaying, and that’s hard to endure

I feel bereft for myself and my country today. We have been utterly betrayed by all three branches of the federal government. Our nation has been enveloped by a cold, dark cloud of perversion, deception and corruption. The last 50 years (my lifetime) of enlightenment, if not more, have been destroyed in less than a year.As a college graduate with a degree in political science and history, I could never have believed we would reach this nadir had I not beheld it with my own eyes. No foreign power