[Richard Kimball]

Well this was different than what I thought it would be. I thought it would be about Franklin's statement that the Republic would only survive until people figured out they could vote themselves benefits from the public til.

Unfortunately, it's just another fruit loop complaining that the courts might not legislate from the bench.

[ForGod'sSake]

A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a Dictatorship.(Written by Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler, nearly two centuries ago while our thirteen original states were still colonies of Great Britain. At the time he was writing of the decline and fall of the Athenian Republic over two thousand years before.