Thursday, April 07, 2016

[uqwfysct] Democracy and the threat of demagoguery

Optimistically, if inequality gets bad, the forces of democracy will act to correct it.  Pessimistically, demagogues only interested in power, not decreasing inequality, will take advantage of people's discontent to seize (via election) and maintain power, perhaps by dismantling democracy.

Both have happened throughout the world.  Which happens when?

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