By Larry Romanoff, November 13, 2022

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':