“Arm, arm and out! ... Ring the alarum bell, blow wind! Come wrack!”

War. Pestilence. Food Shortages. Inflation. Fires and floods. Our modern day Horsemen and accompanying plagues. These challenges are real and present, yet we seem incapable or unwilling to unite in any way to resolve any of these scourges.

A theocracy is a government ruled by religious authority.—like, say, Iran, or the Taliban.  America is a democracy.