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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI heard the creepiest definition for oligarchy.
It's a small group of people who come together in order to get things done, in a way that cannot be successfully accomplished in a democracy.
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)There's only one thing....get richer.
Baitball Blogger
(46,715 posts)The fact that someone tried to come up with a positive slant is remarkable.
haele
(12,656 posts)Where a small group of people get together to force everyone that lives within their sphere of influence to act the way they want them and the greater economy for the benefit and perpetual power of that small group of people.
Haele
magicarpet
(14,150 posts)... self enrichment where murder is not considered an obstacle.
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)The National Prayer Breakfast?
Baitball Blogger
(46,715 posts)Someone I know who is right-leaning who understands our political fractions. He is usually very careful, but some things slip. We were talking about things to say at a wedding and he said that a marriage is not a democracy, it is an oligarchy. I asked him to define oligarchy, and there you are.
It felt like a throwback to the time I heard the priest who married his children say at the altar, that it's okay to hate people. Like he prayed that Barbara Walters would slip on a banana peel.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)a 2-person Oligarchy? or 1 person is the Oligarch?
Baitball Blogger
(46,715 posts)Some mens have to do what needs to be done -even in their marriages.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)Or, "let the other 96% be damned" .
dalton99a
(81,510 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)It's ugly but it's been a common idea for thousands of years.
Baitball Blogger
(46,715 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Remember he had to sneak out of Athens at night to avoid getting his own dose of hemlock.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)in a way that cannot be successfully accomplished in a corrupted democracy.
Point being, there are more of us than them. They'd do well to remember that.