The process and the result of the 2024 presidential election showed that the current status of the modern politics in the United States arguably has some elements of ochlocracy.
According to Wikipedia, 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 distinguished “good” and “bad” according to whether the form of government acted 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 ideal version of democracy.
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Published: January 6, 2025 (01/06/2025).