| What you are all witnessing is the natural process of entropy as it acts on government. Democracy has been done before, and with similar result as it would seem so far. The power was originally in the hands of the people, but gradually drifted towards the central governing body. The cause of this was always economic failure and relatively minor attacks from foreign places that created fear and paranoia, which allowed the government to slowly shift the balance between civil rights and defense towards the latter. As the power continues to centralize itself, eventually the government is able to take the power from the people entirely and become totalitarian. Corruption ensues and the empire falls to ruin creating anarchy, which lasts about 30 seconds since inevitably someone will have a bigger gun or more friends and will take power of his immediate surroundings, creating thousands of tiny kingdoms warring with one another, overthrowing each other, and through a process akin to natural selection of the strongest "kings" it becomes feudalism, followed eventually by monarchy, revolution, and finally democracy again.
The western world has been through this cycle at least 3 times, it would be naive to think that simply because we have bombs and computers now the cycle has ceased, especially in light of recent developments. |