All the American Revolution did was replace the British government with a domestic "nobility" here in the new United States of America -- and these are the people who now run this country. Donald Trump himself has known that for his entire life, despite his charming populism on the campaign trail last year.
In 1824, for example (one of the earliest elections where I could find a popular vote total), there were about 350,000 votes cast -- in a nation of more than 10 million people.
Democrats have ruined the country beyond the possibility of repair. The thing that will come back to haunt us is LBJ and Nixon’s removal of silver and gold as a form of currency. It was replaced by fiat paper. Fiat currency is debt based currency and will inflate away individual wealth until there is nothing left. It is a matter of time, and the public has been so dummied down that it will never recognize it until it is too late.
George Mason was convinced that a 1:30,000 ratio would lead to an aristocratic House of Reps. Gosh, we are around a 1:720,000 ratio today.