How do we know when it's too late? When our democracy is really past its tipping point and can't keep itself up?

Thomas Edsel, the veteran political journalist and New York Times contributor, has been putting this question to political scientists and the findings are alarming.

Coming up on the United States of anxiety, we'll talk with him, we'll look ahead at a pivotal political year and we'll take your calls.

So tell us how worried are you like really are you genuinely concerned about the

health of our democracy or is it just more political background noise? The next installment of our

ongoing look at the state of our digital town square. There's a societal

responsibility for all of us to be talking about this more not just blaming companies or

politicians but like why is it that we as everyone are like this on the internet?

From a scale of 1 to 10, how anxious are you about the state of American democracy moving forward past 2024?

I don't know, kind of six, six seven I'm going to say six because everybody has

their own opinion and it's okay to respect everyone but I feel that we are

giving too much space to everyone.

Probably four.

I think about it from time to time.

But it's not always in the front of my mind.

Like a five because I just choose a little bit ignorance as bliss,

but I definitely don't think that we're in a good place with it.

I say seven. I'm really concerned about the polarization of our

organization, and how we're not able to compromise because people are like, no, you're my enemy,

so I'm not even going to listen to you.

And so how can we possibly imagine people on the Congress floor

to be doing anything different because that's

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