> - Elections are no longer trusted thanks to a radicalized right

If you actually look at the primary sources, only a small minority of people don't trust US elections as a whole. A lot of them are suspicious of one or two particular past elections - particularly Democrats in 2000 and 2016 and Republicans in 2020. That distrust isn't a partisan issue, it happens because people are sore losers.

> - There is no freedom to protest, and the right to free speech is easily forgotten, distorted, misapplied.

A lot of high-profile protests have happened recently, and generally went well. Very, very few of those protests have gotten violent and had police intervention, but the vast majority go just fine and get the message out.

> - The news can say whatever it wants without consequence, unless another big corporation sues them.

Yeah, kind of. Except they are having a harder time getting away with it recently - CNN had to settle with a lot of people on the right (individuals) over defamation, and Fox has had many losses including the recent Dominion case. In this case, the courts have been a check on the power of media, and arguably could be a little stronger.

> - In such a divided and hateful climate, jury trials are regular people bringing their personal biases to the court room. Picture the average person and decide if your freedom is safe in their hands. That's forgetting that Jury's decisions can be overridden (Breonna Taylor)

This has always been the case of jury trials. However, in terms of juries getting overruled, I think you are thinking of grand juries, which are more of an investigative body at an early stage in the process. Trial juries can be overruled on a guilty verdict if there is very good reason but can't on an innocent verdict. It honestly seems like you're upset about juries and the legal system as a whole because a few particular cases haven't gone the way you wanted. Maybe they had more information than you and made a better decision?

> - Presumption of innocence (see above)

Welcome to Blackstone's formulation. It is honestly a lot better that 100 guilty people go free than that 1 innocent gets punished. Yes, that means that some guilty people go free, but maybe you should be okay with that because the other side has a very different idea of who ought to be in jail than your side does, and the presumption of innocence keeps everyone out of jail.

> - There should be term limits for Supreme Court justices, whose seats were completely stolen from the democratic party.

This narrative of "stolen" when both parties technically played by the rules (albeit playing dirty) is a big part of how third-world countries end up devolving into dictatorships - One side thinks that someone stole something that was rightly theirs, and changes the rules to make them more "fair" (in terms of getting what they want). In fact, in some of these countries, court packing is almost a meme: one side gets power and doubles the size of the courts to take control (since "they stole seats from us"), then the other side gets power and doubles them again in retaliation, and this continues until the court doesn't function at all.

Thinking of the 2015 nomination of Garland, that was pretty dirty of Mitch McConnell, and I hope he pays for it by losing some of his party's appointees. If you are referring to the other two Trump appointees as stolen, no. He won the 2016 election (see the above comment on trusted elections) - those seats were up to him to appoint.

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In general, this kind of paranoia about the state of Democracy (or the state of "The Republic" if you play for the other team) in the USA comes out of consuming a lot of partisan news media from one side or the other. It does not actually represent reality - it represents a point of view that gets you to consume more partisan media, which you will happen to do if you think something catastrophic is happening.

The key problem here is that it is very easy to let your idea of what is perfect be the enemy of good. You can look at all these instances and think "we can do better," but if you do, be wary that what you thought was better may come back and bite you. It usually does. It sounds like you play pretty strongly for one team, and that is a recipe for being disappointed in a working democratic system - the other side should win about half the time in a healthy democracy.