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The failure of American democracy is scientifically predictable.
There's only one thing that we know for sure, and that is that there's absolutely nothing that we can be sure about.
There's only one thing that we know for sure, and that is that there's absolutely nothing that we can be sure about. Well, that's not exactly true, because there are some exceptions—like the stoic wisdom in Benjamin Franklin's oft-quoted quip from his 1789 letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy: “'Nothing is certain except death and taxes.”
Actually, Franklin's popular adage was framed in the acknowledgement, that the then-new Constitution had been established and ratified and appeared to have a promise of permanency. Although the U.S.
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