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EvolLove · 6d
No one and I mean no one, that is speaking about democracy is referring to ancient Greece. Everyone are referring to the current system of governments in our Western world. Thus the word Democracy is...
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America's Founders made constant reference to Ancient Hellenic democracies. They were not ignorant like most Americans today.

They hammered together an ugly hybrid of Early-Modern bureaucratic Absolutism and ancient democracy.

Its not very good, but it lasted, and its still (slightly) better than what came before.

Thomas Massie could never have become a royal favourite under Absolutism.

Jeffery Epstein, OTOH, totally could, he was a total stereotype of both a royal favourite and of a Court Jew.
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hasky · 6d
No goverment is best government - Jack Dorsey
EvolLove · 6d
These American Founders that you speak of, no longer exists. They are not talking about anything today. I am not talking about some people who perhaps knew something more than the common man some centuries ago. I am talking about the current situation of today. And as I have proven. Democracy is ...
mleku · 6d
based on the most durable, most effective mechanisms that keep governments contained (rough draft composed by my clanker): so the architecture, in four parts. substitutability rather than persuasion. the leverage is not lobbying, it is that members can exit. you run the schools, the arbitration, t...