WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoAt the time of its founding, the United States was a timocracy.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down15cross-posted to: til@lemmy.ca
arrow-up165arrow-down1external-linkAt the time of its founding, the United States was a timocracy.en.wikipedia.orgWoodScientist@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square7fedilinkcross-posted to: til@lemmy.ca
minus-squarem4m4m4m4@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45arrow-down1·1 day ago More advanced forms of timocracy, where power derives entirely from wealth with no regard for social or civic responsibility, may shift in their form and become a plutocracy where the wealthy rule. Yikes
minus-squareSinningStromgald@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down2·1 day agoDon’t worry we are zooming right past that nonsense to fascism.
minus-squareklu9@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours ago“One word describes Trump”: Patrimonialism
minus-squareacockworkorangelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 hours agoI mean, the US has been a plutocracy for many many decades now. Ever since Reagan, at least.
Yikes
Don’t worry we are zooming right past that nonsense to fascism.
“One word describes Trump”: Patrimonialism
I mean, the US has been a plutocracy for many many decades now. Ever since Reagan, at least.