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Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 0:45

True democracy often leads to tyranny

article image placeholderAmerica Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny
I wanted to share this article that I read four years ago, written soon after Donald Trump won the 2016 election. It talks about Plato's beliefs and ideology that a true democracy eventually would lead to the rise of Tyranny. It's a very interesting read, and it's even more interesting to read this. After four years of President Trump in office, I'd really encourage you to read the article and I would love to have a discussion on this over here

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/america-tyranny-donald-trump.html

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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:43

Long article...

But yes, true, true, true, true, true, true, true democracy often leads to Tyranny Plato revolution book. I liked what he talked about how our founding fathers had put in safeguards because of that. And actually, I was talking to Brad about the whole thing about you have several House of Representatives, but from different States based on population. But then you have two people from two senators from each state. And I was like, Well, there's kind of an inequality there
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:50

Frame this story better !

And she wrote this for the population in the libraries of adults who had low level reading skills. The second she published it and put it out there in magazine form. It was stolen, literally, like, taken from people who don't identify as low level readers. But they took it because they were desperate for something to be clear. And I bring this up because articles that are area and academic and packed with dense language does nothing to help the agenda
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Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 2:04
He is not just another candidate to be parsed and analyzed by TV pundits in the same breadth as all the others. In terms of our Liberal democracy and constitutional order, Trump is an extinction level event. It's long past time we started treating him as such. And again, this was written in May 2016, months before he was elected
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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 1:52
And the phenomenon of Trump is an extinction level event? So then you're talking words like phenomenon. It was a very dense article. It was very erudite. And again, another word erudite, which Debra used. It's easy for us to talk about these fabulous articles and sit in our little comfy places with our educations and our grasp of complex English words and English languages and English language. But yeah, it would be great to have that article written in a fourth grade level
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phil spade
@Phil · 3:45

Emotion vs reason. Where will we get back an authoritative source for truth

And when Andrew discusses Obama's role in this and then Sarah Palin's role in really building a candidate from social media, I thought it was brilliant, but I do think that he, as I outlined before, just really the motion, the playoff motion and then losing our common set of facts for truth, I think is that's probably the biggest takeaway for me from this and how we get that back
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