A few years ago a conservative magazine (I forget which one) published an article entitled "Democracy: The God that Failed." The point was that with the old monarchies you had rulers who had a reason to think about the country, since they were going to leave it to their ancestors. In countries with elected governments the only thing that seems to matter is short term electoral benefit.
Sometimes I wonder if we wouldn't be better off without elections. (That's just my frustration speaking. Please don't take me too literally.)
Amen it is a fight I would been more then willing to put off until afflicted are comforted and the dead are buried and mourned. We were not give that opportunity by a ban of truly evil people thus this fight now is on the nonsensical instead of what is really important, the recovery