A philosophical defence of democracy

[BidenPresident]

As Rousseau cautioned, extreme inequalities of status, wealth and power breed resentment and hate. These attitudes interfere with the equal moral concern for persons on which liberal democracy depends. One of the reasons we might think that extreme economic inequality and political polarisation are undermining liberal democracies today is because of the corrosive, dehumanising attitudes they generate.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philosophy/63751/philosopher-at-large-definition-democracy

 

[BidenPresident]

" Joe Biden, in decrying the dangers of Trumpism, stresses just this. Democracy, he says, “means rule of the people, not rule of the monarchy, not rule of money, not rule of the mighty. Regardless of party, that means free and fair elections, respecting the outcome, win or lose.”

 

[Yakuda]

As Rousseau cautioned, extreme inequalities of status, wealth and power breed resentment and hate. These attitudes interfere with the equal moral concern for persons on which liberal democracy depends. One of the reasons we might think that extreme economic inequality and political polarisation are undermining liberal democracies today is because of the corrosive, dehumanising attitudes they generate.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philosophy/63751/philosopher-at-large-definition-democracy

You know what I actually agree with you. Corrosive and dehumanizing attitudes like, if someone is "rich" it's because they stole it from other people and made them poor. I love agreement.