The Achilles heel of democracy is itself. Everyone has an opinion and desparately wants everyone else to accept it. Only 10% of the people are classified as intelligent and everyone still has an opinion, I hate to say it but I suspect we are living in the last days of the western world, if you don't believe me, just have a good long look at tv. That's where the white male is portrayed as a buffoon, idiot and moron. If he is the poor bugger who is the glue on the fabric, then maybe it's time we did throw the towel in. My family lives on both sides of the border(due to some unpleasantness in 1776), even so, I won't comment as if I were an American. But, it does seem to me that people tend to dwell on the negatives and disreguard the small things that are rotting away the society that we live in. People make a country great, people also destroy a country, all we have to do is decide which side of the fence we want to be on and proceed accordingly.