You and Plato are on the same page here, dear brother in Christ! Plato regarded "democracy" as the fast-track to tyranny, or total lawlessness. This devolution is just a matter of time.
The Framers, however, did not create a democracy. They created a constitutional republic. Then Ben Franklin challenged the people to see whether we could "keep it."
It doesn't look that we have been very successful along those lines.
The poor students have no idea of what "their"(progressives) are Doing..
it's the ones that ALLOWED this to happen I have a problem with,
When the progressives installed federally controlled schools the writing was on the WALL...
for feds control all public and even private schools now...
America is now a trained Dog act... even the bad guys are trained dogs..