WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoAt the time of its founding, the United States was a timocracy.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up172
arrow-up172external-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 month agomessage-square7linkfedilink
minus-squarem4m4m4m4@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·1 month 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-up23·1 month agoDon’t worry we are zooming right past that nonsense to fascism.
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoI mean, the US has been a plutocracy for many many decades now. Ever since Reagan, at least.
minus-squareklu9@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month 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