How Democracies Become Tyrannies

Written far better than I ever could have. That Plato was one sharp dude.



Note especially his support of the 2nd Amendment:

Adeimantus asks Socrates incredulously: "What do you mean? Will the tyrant dare to use violence against [the people] or to hit [them] if [they] don't obey? Socrates answers:

"Yes - once he's taken away [the people's] weapons."

Read the whole of Plato's "Republic" here.

h/t to The American Thinker