Fake-Democracy: The freedom to abuse your social lessers.

  There was a time where the Christian Church was very powerful. It started as soon as Constantine pull it out from clandestineness. A monotheistic religion as it is, immediately after obtaining legal status and becoming one more kid in the block, the agressive nature of monotheism started to manifest. With the backing of Roman imperial authorities, in just a few decades Christianity had drawn all other pagan creeds in the empire to the brink of extinction. There is little doubt that St. Ambrose, the bishop of Milan during the reigns of Valentinian II and Theodosius, was a decisive figure in the Church's accession to power. St. Ambrose was not only fearless, but also fierce when it came to challenging imperial authority. St. Ambrose, a holy man as he was believed to be, had all the love of the people and so enjoyed immense popularity. However, in his way stood the towering figure of Theodosius, who had just ascended to the imperial throne after defeating all his adversaries on...

   The tyrant Trope and the Rise to Power of the Athenian Democracy  Today we know that there is simply no good politician. The great majority of them are just outright awful; but even those that seem to be good cannot be trusted. Yes, there are some politicians who advocate for social justice and the rights of the have-not's; but we all know that all politicians are hypocrites, thus they are certainly only looking for popularity, so that they can soon become a tyrant. Obviously, such course of events should be stopped by all means, because, as much as we may associate tyranny to injustice, it is always better to stay entrenched in injustice than to live under a tyrant. For instance, if Pericles determined that Athenian public officers should be paid for their public service; it was not because he genuinely wanted to enable the lower classes to have access to public offices and, in general, to the political system, in order to achieve the expansion and stabilization of al...