Do You Think Hardball Tactics Are Necessary to Promote Democracies?

A democracy depends on soft norms in which people in power don't rules to their absolute limit, even when they could technically under the rules. Experts worry about those kinds of tactics setting off a kind of spiral of violations. Have you considered a construct like the doomsday clock that the a union of concern scientists have? I was going to go with the a color code scale from back in the a home land security days,. We'll call it demos con. Where are we between five and one? Demos con?