Get Out and Vote!

The polls seem to be tightening.  I can't understand why.  I'm sorry, but Americans, collectively, are idiots and suicidal.  How this thing can even be close is beyond me.

This was written almost 200 years ago.

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville

I think we're already there.