Stephan:   This is why I am worried about my country. I have written extensively about the founding of the United States particularly the roles of George Mason and Benjamin Franklin, who is probably the only Founder who could suddenly appear in the 21st century, and easily adapt. I have spent a long time listening to their voices, through their correspondence and other writings, produced at a time when the physical act of writing a letter and posting it, was a non-trivial event. Or reading contemporaneous accounts of these events, and these men. There can be no question:  they did not all hold the same views or have the same values in some areas. But none of them anticipated or wanted the country we have become. Quite the opposite. And this disconnect between the public image we project, which is their vision, and the reality of who we really are, is creating an existential crisis. This report is fact-based. These poll figures, and click through the many links to see the data on which the report is based, describe our state of fugue.