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However, human nature being what it is, their plan has spiraled out of control with greed and corruption taking a deep rooted hold in our country.

Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more just social, economic,and political relationships and the eradication of other forms of injustices and oppression.” So then, we’ll examine not only Plato’s types of governments, but also the virtues and vices of the type and some tips for defending Stopping a tyrant after they have seized total power illegally takes a war or natural death, exile is often tried, but it is often just met with the return of Napoleon or Lenin… which resolves into Stalin (i.e. Closest we've ever been to dictatorship.

“It is our contention, to be explored later in more detail, that political defiance, or nonviolent struggle, is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.” Founders' Quotes - Democracy Leads to Tyranny Patriot Post - others ^ | 11/14/2007 | Alexander Hamilton Posted on 11/14/2007 6:46:12 AM PST by Loud Mime “It had been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Postal Service and increasing the cost of mail-in voting. That program has now expanded exponentially and has us nearing the next phase of Plato’s cycle. The should-be-producer/but-now-tyrant-in-training rises to the top, crushing other oligarchs as a champion of the punch-drunk people. “Nonviolent struggle both requires and tends to produce a loss (or greater control) of fear of the government and its violent repression. Without that desperately needed legitimacy, the dictators cannot continue to rule indefinitely.” ).In a democracy, one who should be a philosopher-king spends their youth seeking vice, a warrior amasses wealth where they should focus only on honor (like a timocrat or aristocrat) and a defense of the values of the state, a popular artist thinks themselves a politician, and a oligarch or warrior may be lifted up by the people to the status of God-King (but without the wisdom to rule justly), etc.The thing here is that this is all based on what we today know as We know people are naturally greedy, but for Plato, it is the “producer” class (not everyone) that is meant to have the mantra “Greed is Good”. This is less a judgement call and more a truism of human nature… according to Plato at least (Plato notes how With that said, we know (like Plato knew) that not everyone is this virtuous or inclined to be virtuous, but that is why Plato strongly advocates for his By allowing this “specialization” via a state-fostered class system, we allow all aspects of the human condition the liberty to arise, but ensure a balance of traits in society by, for example, ensuring that those who seek truth, not vice, run the state, while those who seek wealth, but not truth, in turn rule their sphere of business and trade.The problem with democracy and oligarchy is that they promote vices to all people (liberty is not a restraining force! What else is Trump going to do as the least popular incumbent of the century overseeing the worst job losses in U.S. history and the highest COVID-19 death count in the world? Democracy-Dictatorship (DD), index of democracy and dictatorship or simply the DD index or the DD datasets refers to the binary measure of democracy and dictatorship first proposed by Adam Przeworski et al. Closest we've ever been to dictatorship.

These” The sailors are quarrelling with one another about the steering –every one is of opinion that he has a right to steer, though he has never learned the art of navigation and cannot tell who taught him or when he learned, and will further assert that it cannot be taught, and they are ready to cut in pieces any one who says the contrary. They throng about the captain, begging and praying him to commit the helm to them; and if at any time they do not prevail, but others are preferred to them, they kill the others or throw them overboard, and having first chained up the noble captain’s senses with drink or some narcotic drug, they mutiny and take possession of the ship and make free with the stores; thus, eating and drinking, they proceed on their voyage in such a manner as might be expected of them. “The old preconception that violent means always work quickly and nonviolent means always require vast time is clearly not valid.