makes me think of some recent articles I've read on how Athens lost its democracy in the fifth century b.c. against Sparta. It's a long story, told in The HIstory of the Peloponnisian War by Thucydides, but it makes the case against a democracy seeing the easy way to triumph with unrestrained militarism, instead of Periclean persuasion.
These articles point out the analogies between fifthe century Athens and our democracy today. It would be well for us to read them and weep.
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