Just curious, but do you think Plato, one of the greatest philosophers and minds of all time, who was born and lived in the place Democracy was essentially born, and did basically nothing but think about those types of things, didn't know what he was talking about?
We weren't discussing whether or not democracy was a good thing. Just what it meant.
And the concept of democracy had been around for thousands of years before our Founding Fathers created this country. But you think after thousands of years of the concept of democracy being established, our Founding Fathers decided to change the meaning?
Or, could it possibly be that educated men like our Founding Fathers assumed that the general population would also be educated and would know that they were speaking of direct democracy when they were talking about "mob rule" and when speaking of a republic, they knew it was a form of democracy known as representative democracy. All of which had been known of for thousands of years.
This was possibly the biggest mistake our Founding Fathers made. They assumed the voting population would be composed of educated people who understood basic concepts like democracy. Guess they didn't forsee the shitty public education the US would eventually have.
Plato didn't like the idea of democracy, either. But again, we weren't talking about if Plato liked it, just what it was.
If you had read The Republic like I suggested, you would know all that.
So you've basically made up the definitions for yourself. Figures. Ok. I won't bother you anymore.
Just curious, but do you think Plato, one of the greatest philosophers and minds of all time, who was born and lived in the place Democracy was essentially born, and did basically nothing but think about those types of things, didn't know what he was talking about?
We weren't discussing whether or not democracy was a good thing. Just what it meant.
And the concept of democracy had been around for thousands of years before our Founding Fathers created this country. But you think after thousands of years of the concept of democracy being established, our Founding Fathers decided to change the meaning?
Or, could it possibly be that educated men like our Founding Fathers assumed that the general population would also be educated and would know that they were speaking of direct democracy when they were talking about "mob rule" and when speaking of a republic, they knew it was a form of democracy known as representative democracy. All of which had been known of for thousands of years.
This was possibly the biggest mistake our Founding Fathers made. They assumed the voting population would be composed of educated people who understood basic concepts like democracy. Guess they didn't forsee the shitty public education the US would eventually have.
Plato didn't like the idea of democracy, either. But again, we weren't talking about if Plato liked it, just what it was.
If you had read The Republic like I suggested, you would know all that.
I thought I was a big pain in the ass....
Okey dokey