What Socrates said about democracy more than 2,000 years ago.
He said that democracy is doomed to fail because it will try to please everyone.
The poor will want the rich, and democracy will give it to them.
Young people will want to be respected like their elders, and democracy will give it to them.
Women will want to be like men, and democracy will allow them to be.
Foreigners will demand the rights of the natives, and democracy will grant them.
Thieves and swindlers will want important government positions, and democracy will give them to them.
And then, when thieves and swindlers finally seize power democratically, because criminals and evildoers want power, there will be a worse dictatorship than in the times of a monarchy or oligarchy.
Socrates (470-399 BC)