“People actually believe that democracy gives us harmony and peace, not to mention wealth. They are sure that it is the ultimate and inevitable end of human development, created by the wise and noble Greeks and given to us, the enlightened society that took it to the ends of the Earth!  But if the ancient Greeks could see what we call ‘democracy,’ they would spit at it. They’d probably want to burn it down. As many problems as they had (and they had plenty), they were not fools, and it wouldn’t take them a day to condemn what the West now worships.  Why would the old Greeks be so upset? Let’s take a look at their (Athenian) system and see how our modern form stacks up.”

http://www.freemansperspective.com/democracy-greeks-america/

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