[angkor]

The Founding Fathers must be crying at what these mediocre clowns have done to that beautifully-designed democracy.

Nope. They warned us about this sort of tyranny time and time again. They never stopped thinking about it. And they gave us tools to stop it.

[sand88]

you are exactly right. Most of their writings were about how to contain the "beast" of government. Contrary to our vile and corrupt leaders of today who think government is the source of all "good" our Founders viewed government as inherently evil. Our Founders were correct.

A good saying by Thomas Paine, "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.