democracy: "a government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meetings or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude towards property is communistic-negative property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. It results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy."
U.S. Army Training Manual( around 1928)
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most from the public treasury with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship." - Alexander Tyler
Whoa, can't let that happen.
Oops! What do we do now?
Seriously though; this has been going on for generations now. Conservatism seems to be gaining momentum in this country but is it enough to turn the tide? How far can the pendulum swing before it must turn back the other way? Must we devolve into anarchy or despotism and revolution to recreate what the founders envisioned?
I think we're closing fast