If Voting Made a Difference, They Wouldn’t Let Us Do It — Mark Twain
If Voting Made a Difference, They Wouldn’t Let Us Do It — Mark Twain
Isn't Democracy just an illusion made out of a Hollywood movie — pbxman
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/hide-and-seek/201607/plato-democracy-tyranny-and-the-ideal-stateThe ideal state is an aristocracy in which rule is exercised by one or more distinguished people. Unfortunately, owing to human nature, the ideal state is unstable and liable to degenerate into timocracy (government by property owners), oligarchy, democracy, and, finally, tyranny. States are not made of oak and rock, but of people, and so come to resemble the people of which they are made. Aristocracies are made of just and good people; timocracies of proud and honour-loving people; oligarchies of misers and money-makers; democracies of people who are overcome by unnecessary desires; and tyrannies of people who are overcome by harmful desires.
Plato provides a detailed account of the degeneration of the state from aristocracy to tyranny via timocracy, oligarchy, and democracy. Democracy in particular arises from the revolt of the disenfranchised in an oligarchy. The state is ‘full of freedom and frankness’ and every citizen is able to live as he pleases.
The ideal state is an aristocracy in which rule is exercised by one or more distinguished people.
Could there be a "direct/'pure' democracy"? Yes, but it's unlikely we'd ever have that, and most people probably wouldn't want it. — Terrapin Station
Democracies aren't any more likely to have laws that I agree with. — Terrapin Station
The assumption that most people wouldn't want this is merely a convenient fiction perpetuated by main beneficiaries of representative democracies; namely politician and the business communities. — Txastopher
I can't speak for your taste in laws, but even so, I suspect that democracies are far more likely to have the laws you agree with. — Txastopher
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