This current presidential election will be perhaps the single most important event the United States has faced in a hundred or more years. Never before has there been such a wide range and disparity between the different candidates. Never before has there been so much at stake. This is where we decide if we’re a representative democracy or an oligarchy. What has our country come to? The answer is that there have been some very fundamental, mostly gradual changes in recent years that brought us to where we are now. The biggest single, most disastrous event was the advent…