Our Constitutional government was designed to control the problems of democracy. That is why there was a separation of powers; two legislative bodies, an executive and and a judiciary. But what a difference the limitation of adequate representation and the information age has brought us. The mob is now the entire nation because through control of information the separation of powers has been made utterly sterile. We have an "elected" king that can exercise enough control over all of the sources of information to unduly influence every vote for every position in government, and to therefore appoint whoever he will to the Supreme Court and have his appointee confirmed as a matter of course. Oh speak to us of "demagogues" and tell us about "mobs". And then tell us what you would call an entire nation who's primary source of information is from entertainment enterprises such as "fix" news and "see'in in". These guys make money by selling ads for SUV's and tires and gasoline, for Christ's sake. You think they want to go back to programs about something as boring as peace? Explosions and fires and shooting are cinema. This is the stuff that sells tires, folks. Our American aristocracy would make war on Daffy Duck if they thought it would exalt their existence and convince the common people that economic policies favoring their caste are necessary to the safety and security of the nation. At the root of these problems is the lack of even a very basic and simple awareness of economic principles. Notice that political economy is not part of the high school curriculum, that potential voters of the nation are quite literally deprived of even the most basic awareness of a subject that will determine much about how they, as individuals, will prosper or fail (Note: Keynes ). And then this ignorance is enforced as people are deprived of proper agency by limiting their representation in such a way as to assure that only the those willing to support the aristocracy will be sufficiently funded in the race for voting power in the House of Representatives. Both of these perversions of democratic principle are well addressed by our favorite quote from Jefferson . By the deprivation of rudimentary economic education and a continuing deprivation of proper agency the American people are mislead, misinformed and misrepresented in such a way as to deprive them of their fundamental rights to self determination.