It's that time.

Time, time, time.

Lock and load.

The Michael Verishow is on the air.

What happens when members of Congress decide that they want other people to give money to their group of supporters?

And no one will dare speak out about it for fear that they'll be called bad names.

That's where we are.

In 1831, Alexis de Toteville traveled throughout the United States for several years and he wrote a book that has been widely studied over the years called Democracy in America.

To mind you, we've only been independent at that point for 50 years.

We've had a constitution for less than that.

We've been America as such for less than 50 years.

We're not even two full decades from having to fight the British again when, of course, they burn down the White House.

So this fledgling democracy is trying to make something of itself.

It's technically a democratic republic, but we use the word democracy to suggest the people have a vote in their government, even if it's technically a republican formal government, which is we don't go on and vote on everything.

The way the ancient Greeks did that would be pure democracy and unworkable.

Because if you think about it, how many things would you go down and vote on?

It'd be like protesters. You don't protest every day either, but there are people who protest because that's what they do. But I digress.

Alexis de Toteville was fascinated by the American experiment, which was still rather early in its infancy.

He wanted to figure out how the United States of America was working.

What was working? Well, what was it?

And one of the things that impressed him most was that when he drove on the roadside, when he stopped on the roads at the roadside bars and ends, there was such an egalitarian sense.

That's what made America special.

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