WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoAt the time of its founding, the United States was a timocracy.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down15cross-posted to: til@lemmy.ca
arrow-up167arrow-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 · 2 days agomessage-square7fedilinkcross-posted to: til@lemmy.ca
minus-squarem4m4m4m4@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45arrow-down1·2 days 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-up24arrow-down2·2 days agoDon’t worry we are zooming right past that nonsense to fascism.
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·24 hours agoI mean, the US has been a plutocracy for many many decades now. Ever since Reagan, at least.
minus-squareklu9@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 hours ago“One word describes Trump”: Patrimonialism
Yikes
Don’t worry we are zooming right past that nonsense to fascism.
I mean, the US has been a plutocracy for many many decades now. Ever since Reagan, at least.
“One word describes Trump”: Patrimonialism