What would be interesting and perhaps useful would be determining the percentage of the US electorate committed to living in a democratic republic. I suspect that there are those on the left and the right who would prefer an autocracy or oligarchy under the assumption that they would then be in charge. As history tells us, that assumption is usually flawed. Revolutions do tend to devour their young (not an original thought).

We enjoy talking about about people who disagree with us as having misperceptions. Can we accept that people disagree with us for the right reasons? That does not make us wrong but does recognize an alternate viewpoint. Further, there are those who may agree with us for the wrong reasons and who do have misperceptions. Those folks also can be dangerous.