Land of the Mummed

plagerizing
The people's role in government was confined to the House of Commons; there the representatives should meet frequently and for a short time to correct the laws, returning immediatly to private life to experience the consequences of their actions along with other members of society...By thier added responsibilities, their long tenure in office and their consequent seperation from the body of the people, the members of the Commons were coming to resemble more the character of rulers than representatives of the ruled.

At one time or another almost every Whig patriot took or was given the name of an ancient republican hero. Classical references and allusions run through much of the colonists' writings; both public and private...Writing at a time when the greatest days of the Republic were crumbling, pessimistic Romans-Cicero, Sallust, Tacitus, Plutarch-contrasted the growing corruption and disorder they saw about them with an imagined earlier republican world of ordered simplicity and acadian virtue and sought continually to explain the transformation. It was as if they were speaking directly to the 18th Century American Revolutionaries.

Substantial elements of the American public are still all too ready to swallow simple slanderous slogans- "Tax and Spend Democrats"- that defeat concerted efforts to deal decisively with major national issues.
At present the Democrats are killing pork projects.