<i>Well, I don&#x27;t want to think about what happens if the world&#x27;s largest democracy becomes irrational.</i><p>Oh, hey, don&#x27;t forget that we have 300M privately-owned guns distributed throughout the country, and have plenty of veterans around with combat experience.<p>If America snaps, it isn&#x27;t going to voluntarily commit itself for psychiatric evaluation.  It&#x27;ll be a full-on schizophrenic break, with lots of bloody bodies.<p>I humbly suggest that a congressional approval rating of 11% and a congressional re-election rate of 95% are not the sort of incompatible numbers that promote continued sanity.