Yeah, that’s what I was thinking.
The undoing of democracies is that they can vote themselves money from the central treasury, thus bankrupting the said democracy.
Yes. The behavior is essentially theft and it represents a moral breakdown in society due to a moral breakdown of the majority of individuals in a society. Once stealing a citizens money from the treasury begins national destruction is inevitable. At least that is the lesson of history. It seems that only in the furnace of misery can the steel of individual morality be forged.