And so go the eternal cycles of politics... wonderful to know we're continuing a tradition that began back before written history, eh? You know, sometimes I wonder what, say, Perikles would think if he saw the mess we have with Democracy. Heh. Honestly, I think he'd probably go 'well, that looks familiar.' Democracy has always been a mess. Strike that, politics as a whole have always been a mess. Occassionally we strike good, but it's a rare thing. And usually it's accompanied by someone who loses out. I think it's been a long time, back since communities were smaller (ie. hundreds, not hundreds of millions of people) that everyone benefitted from political institutions commonly.
