Watching the YouTube archives of TimeTeam UK [View all]

They produced something like 230 episodes over 20 years, it's a few years past cancellation now. But I'm struck, over and over, at how many periods of history they research, how all the rulers and political systems of the times were ensconced and incumbent, yet they all fell, sometimes by invasion, by civil war, by atrophy of civilization, by infighting. This is what America's Founding Fathers hoped to avoid, for all time, with gradual political change, respect for wisdom of the ages in law and custom, by elections for rapid rejection of incompetence, and lifetime judiciary for stability and erudition of life. Yet we struggle with the Republican Party of 2020.

I think this is a case Democrats should make directly to voters. But hey what do I know.

Anyway, TimeTeam is worth many hours of fun!