Democratia: the best we have?

Greek words pad today’s English, take politics. Ancient Greek ‘democratia’ selected those who would benefit under it: plutocracy.

What’s changed? Some politicians, supposedly maintaining its modern-implied, human rights for all, have turned it into an oligarchal ‘mockracy’, personal, party priorities, allegiances above the necessities of society’s poor and vulnerable.

Euphemism: financial fragility, when stressful poverty is reality. Power for a visionary like Nelson Mandela meant helping all the people.