Staking A Claim On The Future
Ron DeSantis reveals how the first elected Dictator of the USA will gain power
As Plato correctly noted well over two thousand years ago, democracy always leads to populism and populism always leads to tyranny. This is why educated Greeks regarded democracy as nothing more than mob rule and for the most part a misfortune to be avoided wherever possible. Inevitably, ancient Athens’ own dalliance with democracy ended in precisely the tyranny Plato predicted because ordinary people are for the most part ignorant, foolish, and easily led by the nose by whatever unscrupulous demagogue happens to come along.
Although the West’s accidental experiment with representative democracy (initially very limited, but growing in scope over the last hundred-and-fifty years) was able to lurch from one catastrophe to another without collapsing entirely, it’s apparent we’re now in the closing phase and rapidly moving toward elected tyranny in a great many Western nations.
For the last decade, populism has been on the ascendant and in a great many countries has elevated to power a motley group of blustering halfwits who — predictable — have inflicted great harm on their nations. Brexit-Johnson, Trump, Modi, Bolsonaro, Duterte, Orban, Babis, and far too many others to mention, have used the ignorance, venality…
