[samuel_adams_us]

John may have been right, sure looks like this country is doing that these days all the while our leaders are focused on their wallets and their heads are in the sand.

[new cruelty]

Just doing a quick search, I found this quote from John Adams:

Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy; such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit, and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.