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'It is Their Right, It is Their Duty, To Throw Off Such Government '

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

-- Declaration of Independence, 1776
Since we declared independence from a tyrannical government 231 years ago, we've done the best we could with the idea of democracy. It hasn't been very good, but it got us by until a few years ago.