The dangers of democracy in clear view: Just what the framers loathed.
Madison’s notes:
“An increase of population will of necessity increase the proportion of those who will labour under all the hardships of life, & secretly sigh for a more equal distribution of its blessings. These may in time outnumber those who are placed above the feelings of indigence. According to the equal laws of suffrage, the power will slide into the hands of the former. No agrarian attempts have yet been made in in this Country, but symtoms, of a leveling spirit, as we have understood, have sufficiently appeared in a certain quarters to give notice of the future danger. How is this danger to be guarded agst. on republican principles? How is the danger in all cases of interested coalitions to oppress the minority to be guarded agst.? Among other means by the establishment of a body in the Govt. sufficiently respectable for its wisdom & virtue, to aid on such emergences, the preponderance of justice by throwing its weight into that scale. Such being the objects of the second branch in the proposed Govt. he thought a considerable duration ought to be given to it. “
But noe ythe Senate is a democratic instituion, subject to the media.
This is why I am (seriously) in favor of switching to an imperial form of government. That worked well for the Romans after their republic was corrupted. That might be the only way to preserve our culture and national identity.
Emperor Trump has a nice ring to it.