United States of America,
Born: July 4th, 1776
Died: November 4th, 2008
“Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”
“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
We lost it.
John Adams was convinced the Jeffersonian Republicans would sign an alliance with those French terrorists, get rid of the elites, and destroy the nation.
Andrew Jackson let mobs into the White House to have a drunken binge while he escaped out the back. All "men of standing" thought the country was finished when he was elected. Even Davy Crockett, no "elite," thought Jackson spelled doom for the U.S.
Both Jefferson and Martin van Buren called the Missouri Compromise the "death knell of the Union."
More than a few thought the Democrats were utterly finished as a national party . . . in 1863.
More than a fe thought the Republicans were finished . . . in 1936.
Now, if you're all through throwing your little hissy fit and feeling sorry for yourselves, how about we get to work and prepare to take back the government.