Anyway, here is my slightly modified take on the death of republic as influenced by Carl Schmitt et. al.
I believe what America is showing and what ancient Greece experienced, as Plato indicates, is the liberalizing of a democracy leads us around to the next segment in the cycle. Liberalizing a democracy opens up the political process to people who are too corruptible or inherently incompetent to effectively participate without discord taking hold.
A healthy republic must:
Be small enough that there are no competing interior regional interests like economic, ethnic, religious, or cultural
Limit political input to a peer group of its most highly competent and responsible
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Anyway, here is my slightly modified take on the death of republic as influenced by Carl Schmitt et. al.
I believe what America is showing and what ancient Greece experienced, as Plato indicates, is the liberalizing of a democracy leads us around to the next segment in the cycle. Liberalizing a democracy opens up the political process to people who are too corruptible or inherently incompetent to effectively participate without discord taking hold.
A healthy republic must:
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