“Debts would be abolished first; taxes laid heavily on the rich, and not at all on the others; and at last a downright equal division of everything be demanded, and voted. What would be the consequence of this? The idle, the vicious, the intemperate would rush into the utmost extravagance of debauchery, sell and spend their share, and then demand a new division of those who purchased from them.”
It was easy for Adams to predict, because it is human nature, and it had happened before with the fall of the Roman Republic and its replacement with the rule of the Caesars. It has happened in the past and it will happen again because those who envy what others have and those who envy power join forces in a democracy and ultimately destroy any democracy.
The current era is the “stress test” for the constitution. We will see if the safeguards placed by our founding fathers against such a day are strong enough to withstand the onslaught.
My old party, the Democrat Party, had many members (like my now dead parents) who at least to share the social values of the country with other Americans. Many of its leaders were thieves (like as now), but at least they weren't trying for the most part to destroy the social order, destroy the military, or destroy white males.
The Democrat Party now exists to spread jealousy of those with more, foster hatred for certain groups (white males), and are determined to destroy the social order.
That is why we are a Constitutional Republic which is NOT a democracy.
The problem is we allowed our Constitution to be removed at the beginning of the 1900s by the Progressives (Marxists).
Everything that is going on today is because we have allowed unjust, unconstitutional laws. (Judges were bribed and corrupted and we appointed Marxists onto the courts).
Cicero stated that when laws cease to be Just—we will get tyranny. All Just Laws promote “public virtue” and that is necessary for a Free Republic (Montesquieu) We now have a Vice System in place since it advocates unequal treatment (progressive tax) and special treatment for vile, dehumanizing acts such as sodomy
Promoting vice is the easiest way to get tyranny-—Machiavelli—he stated it was ESSENTIAL to promote Virtue esp. in the military and we now promote bestiality and sodomy to our young men and force children to take “Pride” in the evil, vile dehumanizing acts. They literally flipped Good and Evil in 100 years to Satan’s Ethic system.