Or not. Study some history, read some classic political thinkers like Plato, Aristotle or Machiavelli. You do not need "of thousands of dollars" for it. "Save a lot" by buying the books on Amazon or better yet by getting them online:
I won't pretend to be a historian, but, weren't Plato and Aristotle key to the original rise of democracy in ancient Greece? And didn't America surpass ancient Greece about 20 years ago as the longest surviving democracy in human history?
Of course, that's just me. I may be wrong. It's more important to indoctrinate our children into revisionist history for the good of all mankind, facts notwithstanding.