Democracy never selects the best leader it always selects the best liar. and that is why every democracy eventually fails. Democracy does not reward wisdom it rewards persuasion. The man who understands reality loses to the man who can manipulate perception. The honest lose to the charing, the disciplined lose to the theatrical. Plato said the heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior that is not moral advice it is a law of power. When competence withdraws, manipulation advances when truth is costly lies become efficient. And when popularity determines authority deception becomes strategy democracy does not collapse from the outside it hollows itself out from within and when the lies finally shake the system the ending is predictable. The people do to resist tyranny they beg for it.
It seems that what Plato said is coming true for our country. Trump and his administration is killing people and destroying what is good about our country. Both major parties have led us here. I am not sure what it will take to restore and refine our system. I am afraid it will come to violence from the people or perhaps a major protest that shuts the country down will be enough. Something has to be done.
DT
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