@JackBandit Women's suffrage / universal suffrage was a disaster. But the constitutional republic federation of states of America died with Lincoln's Presidency. Depends how far back you want to go to count as the "beginning." The slave trade, Baby Boomers, hippies, the political Right who chooses principles over survival, etc. The Fall of Man and the demonic influence? I think the simplest proverb is, instead, "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."