It's ridiculous that each state gets two Senators, regardless of population...

[Hortensis]

92. I have read that book, long ago though.

Informed people know how we got here. We don't know how to make better citizens of people who are not wired to make the decisions necessary to democracy. Or perhaps we should say that we've learned a lot about how, but how to do that without violating their rights to make their own choices and without brainwashing is a long list of questions without answers.

This isn't all going on on the right either. Right now too many on the left have also been seriously considering voting for people who are clearly unsuited to power or responsibility in a democracy. It's not that the information isn't available, it's that the judgement is lacking.

This may be a form of societal suicide. It ma be that evolution built a need into the human race, stronger in some than others, to burn down the village and move on to find a new valley now and then. And it's still in us. Easy to see how extended comfort and population growth leading to stasis and increased demand for food can be a danger to survival.

Looking around at what's happening now, that theory makes sense to me. How else to explain the eagerness in too many on both sides to burn down what has worked well in the past, to dismantle the stability our lives literally depend on, not just our wellbeing, without knowing we can replace it with something even halfway adequate, much less better?

The destabilization and destruction we are seeing is a clear result of eagerness in some to kick over the bucket and a willingness to destroy. And in this troubled era, it's become dangerously strong in too many, including the bad leaders who rise in response.