The 2020’s will test the strength of American society and democracy like no other time since our Civil War. According to author George Friedman, this is just part of America’s natural cyclical pattern, and calmer seas await in the 2030’s. It’s July 2022 as I write this article, and I find my country struggling through a profoundly difficult time in its history. The hits just keep coming. In just the last few months we have been forced to confront a slew of highly disturbing mass shootings, one of them horrifically…