>>46752
It has nothing to do about being a democracy or not. If the government and institutions become corrupted, then everything else goes to shit. You can call whatever you want a Republic or Democracy, but corruption and financial insolvency (via endless debt) will always ALWAYS destroy the nations plagued by it. United States not immune. Just like Rome we built a great vast sprawling prosperous country within 200 years time, and it only took a few decades to get to the shithole it's becoming today (I would say 9/11 was the death knell and the rise of corruption and insolvency but some may disagree over other historic events that have undermined stability. Some say it goes way back to the day the Federal Reserve was established with the first-ever income tax).