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The poor will want the wealth of the rich, and democracy will give it to them. Young people will want to be respected as elderly and democracy will give it to them. Women will want to be like men and democracy will give it to them Foreigners will want the rights of the natives and democracy will give it to them. Thieves and fraudsters will want important government functions, and democracy will give it to them. And at that time, when thieves and fraudsters finally democratically take authority because criminals and evil doers want power, there will be worse dictatorship than in the time of any monarchy or oligarchy. Socrates (470-399 b.c.)

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The Ghana Report
What Socrates said about democracy more than 2000 years ago - The Ghana Report
He said that democracy must fall because it will try to tailor to everyone. The poor will want the wealth of the rich, and democracy will give it t...
 the source of this "quote" is here. it's literally true though, that socrates warned about democracy, but this isn't what he wrote. it just reeks of a nonsense "women will want to be like men" that's modern bernays public relations that did that. it certainly was not a subject of note in the times of socrates and plato. democracy only involved male land owners, and until the 19th century that's pretty much the rule for democracy. it actually basically mostly works if it is run that way. giving votes to people who don't own property and don't do the work s giving the product of that labor, and redistributing that property, to those who succeed in getting the vote in their favor, while they have no stake in it. they either don't lose (get nothing) or they gain at the expense of others (like we see with welfare systems, fascist cooperation between aristocrats and government, and so on). yeah, it should never be forgotten that fascism and national socialism were voted INTO. and the people had to shoot their way out.