There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the dif”