1 thought on “US POLITICS: “The United States is an Oligarchy” / President Jimmy Carter ☮”

1. Alas, oligarchy has always seemingly been the preferred means of governance and why democracy, while a novel and romantic idea, is seldom effectual because men and women rarely know what they want until they are told what to want.

   I repeat, as I have often in these comments, David Hume, writing in the 18th century.

   “Nothing appears more surprizing to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.”

   Times change. Humans seldom do.

   Even if there were a sweeping economic, political, and social revolution, how long would it last before we revert to another oligarchial arrangement?

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