ok, I have a paper topic now...

[alierak]

... but I'm no less frustrated.

During the first days of his reign and for some time after, won't he smile in welcome at anyone he meets, saying that he's no tyrant, making all sorts of promises both in public and in private, freeing the people from debt, redistributing the land to them and to his followers, and pretending to be gracious and

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[radioactive]

Alexis De Tocqueville asserted that a democracy can only endure until the populace figures out they can vote themselves money from the treasury.

I love this country -- it's like being in the middle of a slow, vast train wreck with hundreds of millions of participants.