People fight for change because they have no representation.

We've always been controlled by the elite.

The United States is not a democracy — and it wasn't meant to be one
[thehill.com]

(parenthetical insertions by me)

"The Framers knew that in its pure form democracy could be dangerous. The writings of the founding era are replete with warnings of this fact:

· “Real liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments,” Alexander Hamilton (slave dealer) wrote. “If we incline too much to democracy we shall soon shoot into a monarchy, or some other form of a dictatorship.”

· Thomas Jefferson (600+ slaves) lamented that “a democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51 percent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49.”

· James Madison (100+ slaves) argued that democracies “have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”

· John Adams (almost an abolitionist) concluded that democracy “never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

Despite what many of today’s activists would have us believe, the anti-democratic institutions of the American Republic are just as vital now as they were over 200 years ago."