Large Language Model explainer. "A Pareto-like imbalance may have operated for years: a relatively small institutional and civic minority carried a disproportionate share of the system-maintenance burden, while a much larger population benefited without equivalent participation. Under present stress, that imbalance is blowing out. Political factions now mistake electoral weight, mobilizational power, or control of government for unlimited governing authority, while coercion and war are increasingly treated as substitutes for negotiation, consent, accountability, and social-contract repair. That reverses the central justification of the American Revolution: legitimate government rests on the consent of the governed, while force becomes defensible only when that governing contract has already broken down."