Can't believe that the first sight of this site helped me immediately in another group discussion. Everything on the first page. I just said the same thing and was considered an impatient undergrad. Well I am impatient. I think slow-reading of THE PRINCE should include modern events. It's like an index to politics, the dictatorship POV. There is a "dictatorship" psychology even here in the USA. The Presidency has to be bought. People with wealth aren't necessarily democratic. Oh well, here we go And thanks for this site.