[LouAvul]

The ancient Greeks would have a politician standing on a stool with a rope around his neck whenever he introduced new legislation. If the people didn't like the legislation, they'd kick the stool out.

If the USA had that luxury, we would have run out of rope long ago.

[Krosan]

The primitive democracy of Greece created a stable system of clientelism. It brings poverty long term and the legacy of that is one of the reasons Greeks live in poverty now.

In America clientelism created the most corrosive Democrat machines. Life isn’t good where that system rules.