And we don’t have a democracy, which is good. A representative Republic. But the upper echelons are so corrupt, it cannot be fixed without outside intervention. Let me dig up my quote about this, it’s on my desktop:
When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.
Thomas Jefferson quoting Baron de Montesquieu
Mark Levin has rightly pointed out that the Democrat Party has hated the Republic from the very beginning. That political party should have been outlawed in 1865. Instead they have continued their Ku Klux Klan anti-republic fight ever since, until Lyndon Johnson discovered a way to ensnare black Americans into accepting slavery with meager govt handouts... just look at their 'Blue' cities.
Now the 'Rat Party is on the verge of accomplishing everything it has wanted since the 1780s; they have just broadened their slavery target to the whole population and substituted the heavy hand of 'law enforcement' for the simple hand whip.
Baron de Montesquieu was correct; the 'corruption' must be removed. Force did not accomplish the task in 1861-1865. The people will have to come to realize the inherent evil encapsulated in the Democrat Party and decide to utterly reject it or this drama will be repeated again ... and again!