It avers, also, that governments are instituted to secure these rights of nature and of nature's God, and that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right of THE PEOPLE to alter, or to abolish it, and to institute a new government - to throw off a government degenerating into despotism, and to provide new guards for their future security. They proceed then to say that such was then the situation of the Colonies, and such the necessity which constrained them to alter their former systems of government.” These words I have copied from your comment, quoted from John Quincy Adams seem to be nearing what our current election is about.
All that you quoted in your comment is good. I just found that last sentence kinda comforting and worth repeating.