I love how invested Luann fans are in the characters. Every week a number of people complain about a partucular arc and say how glad they are it’s over. I follow a few strips and this is the only one where fans get that personally invilved.
It’s odd. When American soldiers laid down their lives in WW 2 they were very clear that they were fighting to protect democracy. Now the Republican party is convincing people that democracy is bad, and that they live in a Republic. This is somewhat similar to Hitler’s propaganda for the German people in the 1930’s, or Putin’s destruction of the fledgling democratic experiment in Russia. What is disturbing is that the USA is viewed as the country the created the first modern democracy. A Republic can exist as a democracy, as was originally intended for the USA, or it can become an oligarchy, theocracy or outright dictatorship. The thing about a democracy is that sometimes people who have different ideas than you will be in power.
Try reading reading your news. The Washington Post and New York Times both have over 100 years of history and very high journalistic standards. Even if you believe they have a slant, they report all the news and if they print it you know it is true. If they do a make a mistake (quite rare) they print a retraction.
I am enoying this arc. I love the old Film Noir PI movies.