Zucas said:
In my political theory class I took, I actually read Gorgias from Plato. Of course Socrates completely owned him in the story and he even began to change his opinion, but man someone who prides themselves in rhetoric rather than justice is quite disturbing. Would always say in the story how he could convince someone over a doctor about such things which is just disturbing. Was always meant to be a knock at politicians who instead of having justice at heart only sought to deceive. Socrates was always concerned with the bettering of the human soul while he saw the rest concerned with obtaining power, or in this case power through manipulation and deception. Sounds very familiar to politicians nowadays and the factions Madison had talked about. |
Ironically I re-read Federalist #10 just a week ago or so, but then as you point out it does apply remarkably well to what is going on right now.
In re-reading it one line that I found telling of which groups he would consider to be guilty of, as he would put it, the "mischiefs of faction":
"A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire State."
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