The thread still has plenty of 'rhetoric' and opinionated pieces, including the one I was responding to. My post clearly stated that democracy cannot be sustain

The thread still has plenty of 'rhetoric' and opinionated pieces, including the one I was responding to. My post clearly stated that democracy cannot be sustained by a populace that thinks it has no say and history cannot be used if it doesn't exist. I would think hard before labeling that theory as 'rhetoric'.