no.5 is my favorite and most relevant to the USA at this time, or any time.
This problem with humanity is one of the reasons great civilizations fall time and again, even when the GREATEST of orators (Cicero, Demosthenes, etc) try to fend it off. And here we are try to fend it off with Mitt Romney and other GOPe losers, let alone those famous men with superior skill-sets of verbal persuasion. Good Grief!