- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.ml
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“Trust me bruh, just one more time”
Show this to a liberal and they’ll say ‘‘B-but times have changed! Democracy works now!’’ as if their democracy doesn’t still bow to corporations and the rich.
You think so? I feel like faith in democracy™ is at an all time low among liberals too.
Help me source the Greek critique of electoralism. Was it Plato?
Both plato and aristotle, but aristotle thought that any election-based state turned out in practice, to be an oligarchy or aristocracy, not a democracy (which he define as rule by the poor, with random selection by lot).
Aristotle’s politics books 4-6 talk a lot about this:
It’s Plato but it also isn’t a critique.
Plato believed the general idea stated in the post, but he genuinely believed that that was a good thing because that meant he got to be powerful and maintain his influence.
