CN — LARRY ROMANOFF: 民主，最危险的宗教 — 11. 第11章——民主的奇异现象

 

November 13, 2022

 

Democracy, The Most Dangerous Religion
民主，最危险的宗教

11. Chapter 11 – The Chimera of Democracy
11. 第11章——民主的奇异现象

By Larry Romanoff
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Democracy, The Most Dangerous Religion

Part 10 - The Chimera of Democracy

By Larry Romanoff, November 13, 2022

 

 

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Americans often fervently and unquestioningly attribute a kind of divine origin for their treasured democracy with claims that it originated centuries ago in Greece, promoted by some of the world's greatest thinkers like Plato and Socrates, and is the natural and permanent state of man. But once again the Americans are simply displaying their ignorance, with sound bytes taken out of context and substituted for knowledge. There is no evidence whatever that multi-party anything is natural, and even less evidence that it's permanent, and belief in a nonsense does not make it true. A form of representative government did indeed appear in ancient Greece, but it was entirely bereft of the cloak of reverence with which Americans have since clothed it. Here is Socrates' judgment of democracy, as reported by Plato in his 'Republic':