Since the late 1800s people have been moving to the metropolis, working in jobs that have no share or pride of ownership, scraping against alien cultures because of massive immigration, coping with crime and random violence and living with a constant apprehension of mass destruction from world wars, global pandemics, and economic collapse.

Progressivism and its Marxist cousins have been the dominant, and perhaps the only, political narratives that have directly addressed how society can survive modernity. Occasional references to Eighteenth Century virtues of small government are meaningless when they do not lead directly to a mechanism that addresses the big problems.

Big problems require big solutions. With no narrative to replace the solutions of a Guardian Class then it’s a Guardian Class we will get.

Obama has said that the Constitution is an obstacle to progress. Chavez, and I suspect also Zelaya, say the same thing. Guardians make their own rules. They know better.