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Yeah, democracy is a fundamentally flawed system in that way, the Greeks were heavily aware of the popularity contest potential of it as a governing system. It'
by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
Yeah, democracy is a fundamentally flawed system in that way, the Greeks were heavily aware of the popularity contest potential of it as a governing system. It's essentially the job of the "political elites" who heavily manipulate the system (through mechanisms like primaries and candidacy criteria) to not let too many elderly plutocrats get into office; because that signals instability to the rest of the geopolitical players. The fact that our political elites can no longer maintain the steady state of "respectable" leadership in America, and are being forced to compromise for goofy polarizing candidates is actually very concerning for long term view of the nation
- anonymouskimmer 3y ago> Yeah, democracy is a fundamentally flawed system in that way As long as the elections keep on happening in a timely manner it's a "flaw" that can fix itself.
- SQueeeeeL 3y agoThat's mostly assuming that "decorum" is kept, which is essentially the hallmark bellwether for geopolitical stability. A populis leader could hypothetically take and maintain power outside of established rules and laws (i.e. imposed term limits, respecting results of elections, being physically and mentally fit to serve). Every nation state is basically constantly on the knife's edge of falling into political disarray; decorum/external optics is basically the temperature you can use to measure stability
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