The process and the result of the presidential election in 2024 showed that the current status of the modern politics in the United States arguably has some elements of the state of OCHLOCRACY.
According to the Wikipedia encyclopedia, it was said that ancient Greek political thinkers regarded ochlocracy as one of the three “bad” forms of government (tyranny, oligarchy, and ochlocracy) as opposed to the three “good” forms of government: monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy.
Those thinkers were said to have distinguished “good” and “bad” according to whether the government form would act in the interest of the whole community (“good”) or in the exclusive interests of a group or individual at the expense of justice (“bad”).
OCHLOCRACY appears to be in opposition to the good version of DEMOCRACY.
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Published: January 6, 2025 (01/06/2025).