Aristotle said that democracy is Rule by the Poor, since the poor are always larger in number than the rich, and the short-sighted, economic nonsense that the poor vote for leads to an increase in the number of the poor, who vote for the same nonsense...
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Aristotle was a genius. Wasn't that Socrates, though? Idk, its crazy heavy reading
No, you were right, it was Aristotle. I guess I just think of him as the boat buoyancy guy with the laser tower.
i'm not sure that is correct, pretty sure ancient greek democracy was only for land owning men (the olympics too, men only)
there are more recent, and fresher, appealingly applicable, takes on democracy
I'd look through the whole (political) spectrum for these
however, it looks to me that the concept of democracy as a mandate to exploit others is quite interesting, idk
how the EU looks like considering that aspect of democracy - who is in charge really, or are they?
In what world is the EU a democracy?
The US equivalent are ex-Californians that moved to your state to get away from the crap in California, taking over your local government, then bringing in the same policies that made California shitty enough to move away from.
When vote counting is honest only.
Great point. They will always bite for more free stuff.
Yeah, but today's democracies resembles more oligarchies
