re: #107 engineer dog

how soon before they start calling for a return to property tests for voting and a privileged aristocracy?

I personally know some wingnuts who advocate exactly that. It is a fairly common position among proponents of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.
My insane Baptist deacon brother “Judas” (married to my ex, “Jezebel” aka “Jabba the Slutt”) is one of them. Among other things, he wants to abolish the public school system, forgetting of course that he and I were educated at public expense (I more than he, a lot more). Only homeschoolers and the rich could educate their children, inevitably creating a theocratic aristocracy.