Agreed, and that's true for pretty much every form of government. It requires people to do the right thing and maintain the system.
To put it another way, the way the Constitution was written has resulted in about a 100 million armed patriots in this country. If the 2nd amendment wasn't included and we were disarmed long ago, we'd be in a far worse situation. IMO that's a powerful safeguard. We're not at the point of needing to exercise that option yet (hopefully never needed), as Trump and the military are still working their plan.
Pure democracies lead to tyranny of the minority by the majority. Republics at least have some safeguards against this.
Where are the safeguards?
We're not really seeing them.
Given enough time and power, all safeguards can be subverted.
Agreed, and that's true for pretty much every form of government. It requires people to do the right thing and maintain the system.
To put it another way, the way the Constitution was written has resulted in about a 100 million armed patriots in this country. If the 2nd amendment wasn't included and we were disarmed long ago, we'd be in a far worse situation. IMO that's a powerful safeguard. We're not at the point of needing to exercise that option yet (hopefully never needed), as Trump and the military are still working their plan.
Even that gets subverted though.
Control media and law enforcement, control the people with guns