Yes, Tytler was right, and that’s the reason that the Founding Fathers of the US Constitution did not give us a democracy. There are intrinsic problems with democracy. The checks and balances of the American government and the peculiar method of tabulating votes are designed to prevent the majority from tyrannizing the rest of us. For one thing, its hard enough to get the Senate and the House in agreement. They have different perspectives on what the people need, and which people we’re talking about. The President, representing the interest of the People as a whole, can then veto any attempt to raid the treasury, and the Supreme Court can likewise overturn any illegal attempt to do so.