A Wee Bit Of Perspective

... For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats. ...

from Ben Franklin care of Glenn.

Of course, we do have some chutzpah trying to do this with what may be the original builders of Babel!

But I grow so weary of our Gramscian neo-Syndicalist Dems going on and on about how what they're effectively calling the "backward brown-skinned people" aren't "good enough" for democracy. And then they call me the racist...