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

by Caroline Arnold

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.

As we grew in population, wealth and power we created ever larger systems in both the public and private sectors. We mostly managed those systems with Command & Control, providing democratic processes and Constitutional “checks and balances” to keep power from accruing to individuals or private entities in government.