codeguy wrote:74novaman wrote:We've been sliding toward mob rule ever since we went to direct election of senators in 1913.
"Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. . . . Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." ~ John Adams