Political Progressions another look

The historical progression of political form of government depends to some extent upon the size of the political unit.

The family - extended family structure is - or should be -a benevolent dictatorship, with one clear leader, and a clear structured hierarchy of family members. The leader usually has been an adult male in his prime, who defers to the experience of older - past prime males, but in the end analysis it is his judgment that prevails. He is the "breadwinner" and as soon as he is no longer the prime breadwinner, then another male takes over.

The tribe usually also is lead by the dominant male of the dominant family. Perhaps "chief" or clan chieftain is a good term.

The small town usually has a "mayor", elected by consensus if nothing else, who keeps the several tribes within the town together.

A larger unit may have a "lord, earl, baron", or other nobility that controls a larger area.  These feudal leaders rule by control of military strength, and rarely by consensus, but they demand special status, "respect" and deference, and also demand an unfair or at least disproportionate share of the local wealth.

This later give way to kings, and kingdoms who usually have one major city state, and several subservient smaller cities attached to the capital city.

The "King of kings" title from Mesopotamia is a way of saying Emperor, or political domination of several city states.

At this point the theory is delegation of rights downward, the people have what rights that they rulers grant them. People are "property" of the elite class.

This changes to theory of delegation of rights upwards from the people, and thus democracy. But that then fails since the mob rule does not respect the individual rights, and thus a democracy where the majority rules give way to the republic where the rights of the individual are protected, and specifically the rights of the minority are protected from the majority.

That then leads to the question of who protects us from ourselves? If the majority is not right, and I will just re ask "Can you name ANY case where the majority was right?" - then we return to rule by an elite but more ethical or at least more "juudicial" oligarchial elite group.

and lest we get too pompous and take ourselves too seriously, another side to politics, Remember always gild the philosophic pill, and there probably is more truth in a Joke than a church sermon.

Subject:  In Honor Of Election Day
 
 
 A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which
 debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -- G. Gordon
 Liddy
 
 A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the
 support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw
 
 Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich
 countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Casey
 (1992)
 
 Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys
 to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke
 
 Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to
 live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat
 
 Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short
 phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate
 it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -- Ronald Reagan (1986)
 
 I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. --
 Will Rogers
 
 If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it
 costs when it's free. -- P.J. O'Rourke
 
 Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean
 politics won't take an interest in you. -- Pericles (430 B.C.)
 
 No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in
 session. -- Mark Twain (1866)
 
 Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.
 But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
 
 Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it. The government is like a
 baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one
 end and no responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan
 
 The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.
 The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing
 of misery. -- Winston Churchill
 
 The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the
 taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain
 
 We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is
 like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by
 the handle. -- Winston Churchill
 
 What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -- Edward
 Langley

Politicians and a baby’s diaper should be changed regularly,

and for the same reason.