[throwaway171223]

> to claim democracy is broken because a voice of an educated person carries same weight than that of a high school dropout

Is not logical.

> fascism wasn't only a manipulation

No successful ideology is only a manipulation.

> Had fascism succeeded

I doubt anyone really knows why, but the historical fact is that it didn't.

[johnnyanmac]

>Is not logical.

How so?

>No successful ideology is only a manipulation.

Depends on how you define success. We can say "fascism didn't succeed" but it certainly didn't blow over as a trend. Not back then, and not now.

[throwaway171223]

As a common meeting ground between Hobbes and Rousseau (and probably Locke, which I confess I have not read), anyone can hold and fire a gun. Considering the original context in whence Greek democracy flourished, I'd say that's a fair extrapolation to modern times.

[johnnyanmac]

> Considering the original context in whence Greek democracy flourished, I'd say that's a fair extrapolation to modern times.

I don't think so. Even "democracy" in the lens of 18th is century America is rife with various prejudice that shouldn't existing in a pure democracy. I wouldn't extrapolate anything accurately from millenia ago if it degregates in a matter of a few centuries.

It's very easy to protest "equal vote for each person" when the ruling body gets to define "person" (or more accurately, "citizen") in their own emotion way