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But this is how democracy worked from the very beginning. Only free men, property owners voted. The Greeks would call "democracies" of today, ochlocracies, whic
by anovikov 7y ago
But this is how democracy worked from the very beginning. Only free men, property owners voted. The Greeks would call "democracies" of today, ochlocracies, which they deemed to be the worst form of government. Voting of largely irresponsible people with nothing to lose.
It's either prequalification, or manipulations to make those voters irrelevant, reduce them to just noise. And of course, in today's world of lies, manipulations are the way to go.