According to Alexis De Tocqueville, (Democracy in America, Chapter 21), democratic ages are times of rapid and incessant transformation and true democracies should be free from disruptive political violence: “Almost all the revolutions which have changed the aspect of nations...— Michael Pettis (@michaelxpettis) November 4, 2019
According to Alexis De Tocqueville,
(Democracy in America, Chapter 21), democratic
ages are times of rapid and incessant transformation and true democracies
should be free from disruptive political violence:
“Almost all the revolutions which have changed the aspect of nations have
been made to consolidate or to destroy social inequality.” He goes on to
say: “I am aware that amongst a great democratic people there will always be
some members of the community in great poverty, and others in great opulence;
but the poor, instead of forming the immense majority of the nation, as is
always the case in aristocratic communities, are comparatively few in number,
and the laws do not bind them together by the ties of irremediable and
hereditary penury. The wealthy, on their side, are scarce and powerless; they
have no privileges which attract public observation”
Until there is a
significant rebalancing of wealth and social opportunities in the US, it seems
that history’s leading analyst of American democracy would worry whether the
USA today can remain an example of American democracy.
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