Sunday, April 5, 2020

Hungary and the Evolution of Dictatorships

My brother texted me he had just learned that Hungary was now a dictatorship.

Apparently, this is how it goes.  I found a website that has a nice synopsis of Plato's Republic.

So, the order is:

- Monarchy/Aristocracy (a government based on wisdom)

- Timocracy (a government based on honor and merit; like a military)

- Oligarchy (a government based on wealth; a capitalist state)

Democracy/Anarchy (a government based on liberty and equality)

Mixed Republic is the most stable allowing "sub systems" of Democracy and others to thrive.

So, I wonder if those countries that have preserved their Aristocracy in some form (becoming a subsystem of a Republic) may be stable-forming influence. Just a guess.

Countries like Hungary have been whipsawed from one form of government to another. Reading just a little bit of their history in Wikipedia new governments were a way of life!

I'm hoping America's mix of representative Republic and State Government will be good.


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