@ChadleyDudebro @DW2 @PopulistRight @RMIV @Spingebill @TrevorGoodchild @monsterislandcolonizer I'm well beyond that my friend. I think about the Kyklos daily and about how forms of government always die.

"A republic, if you can keep it"

the tricky part is the keeping it - and you can only achieve that by having a culture which forces people to engage. We had a pretty healthy culture of that prior to 1965, but all these millions of immigrants are used to corruption as a way of life. Even the irish were used to that, and it was barely beaten out of them after a century.