The fact that he might have contradicted himself doesn't mean his law was 'refuted'. It remains true, as you have just demonstrated. Not but what your point is a perfectly fair & valid one. But then so was Ake's. As I never tire of saying, all you lot over there call yourselves believers in democracy, but then throw a fit of the vapours when anyone not on your 'approved' list gets in. That is, of course, the paradox of democracy, which is precisely as Mr Lincoln described it. The other great paradox is that the Lefties claim themselves motivated by love of humanity, but are consumed with obsessive hatred of practically all actual humans.

~M~