Oh... you’re “that guy”.
After all it was these very Greeks that pointed out to us around 300 BC that "democracy" begins to die in the very minute that elected politicians discover they can write checks on the public treasury to pay their friends for their votes. At the same time they can financially punish their enemies with taxes.
There you go. Tribalism... Democracy.... Oligarchy.... Tyranny ... Revolution .... repeat for a few millenia. Us? Looking to me like the "Oligarchy" stage is well under way.