Just allowing our American treacherous elites to call this country a "democracy" since about the 1970s, is a symptom and signal of the disease, all in and of itself. I bet if you ask the common man or woman in the street what form of government we have, half will say they have no idea, but probably more than half of those who answer will say "a democracy." Sad.

No wonder our Constitutional Republic is in such dire jeopardy of suffering a really violent revolution at some point in the not-too-distant future, and you are absolutely right to point out so succinctly that rarely does a nation emerge from a revolution in better shape than beforehand.