> do fear that, with the hollowing out of democracy, we are headed towards another set of dark ages. The power of democracy has always been proportional to tha

> do fear that, with the hollowing out of democracy, we are headed towards another set of dark ages. The power of democracy has always been proportional to that of the people to backstop their source of power which is violence. For a brief period of time weapons and force was accessible to the common man. As overwhelming complex weapons of nation-state cost dominate government the wheel turns in their favor until the next technological change like the firearm shifts violence back towards egalitarian access to violence.