> Behalf Of Bob Henderson
> Gautam said:
> > > Behalf Of Bob Henderson
> My opinion that Fascism and democracy are compatible still
> stands even
> though my examples lacked rigour. But if I understand you
> correctly, you
> were questioning the example rather than the opinion.
>
> Bob.
Oh, absolutely. Like the Founding Fathers, in fact, I think that
democracy and fascism (they had the concept, if not the word) are more
than compatible - democracy will almost inevitably lead to fascism.
That's why they created a republic - they looked very closely at the
examples of Athens and Rome, which were, quite literally, the only
examples of "democracies (used in the loose sense)" that were
available to them, and concluded that democratic polities were
extraordinarily susceptible to rule by a single demagogue. Alcibiades
in Athens, or Caesar in Rome being the prime examples. The Republican
system that they created was designed to guard against that. In fact,
they would have used "democratic" as a _criticism_ of a system, not as
praise. The American Constitution is an exceptionally undemocratic
document, and this is neither an accident nor an anachronism.
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