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But now question of substantial import. What if a political party, weak and feckless, is taken over by the berserk mobs in the street. They all mesh into one party of unhinged and hysterical blobs. Then they begin enacting legislation that actually endangerd my life. That to me would constitute a clear and present danger to my right of self-defense

It should br obvious to any logical person that a representative democratic system inherently bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

Ben Franklin and his compatriot leaders knew it. What we got then was a republic, and it has been very hard to keep it. The unchristian natural human is wholly infected from birth of the disease of selfishness that is incompatible to the system.

The attempt to mitigate this overwhelming tendency through religion, education, and a just legal system has dwindled and is at the point of failure. Robert Bork has pointed this out years ago in his treatise "Slouching Towards Gomorrah" and "The Tempting Of America."

Only the altruistic wise and their adversaries--the sly political manipulators--have paid much attention to this premise.

We now know who up to this point is winning this war for the world: the dominance of self-serving demagogues representing a credulous greedy mass of poorly schooled slavish subjects.