Aristotle thought that democracy required some level of maintained equality to be stable. Madison thought that elites should run a democratic republic so that e

Aristotle thought that democracy required some level of maintained equality to be stable. Madison thought that elites should run a democratic republic so that economic equality wasn't needed. We expanded the concept of who has franchise, but never expanded the equality. A certain level of economic and educational equality was assumed by the founders when they constructed a government where only landed gentry could vote. You can't have it both ways. The current system will keep skewing towards pitchfork-ville until elites realize that it's in their self interest to decrease the level of inequality.