Wikipedia: Where There's Democracy, There's Oligarchy« Thread Started on Dec 5, 2007, 5:55pm » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Wikipedia: Where There's Democracy, There's OligarchyBy Stan Schroeder read at source> http://mashable.com/2007/12/04/wikipedi ... oligarchy/
Democracy is the rule of the people. Are these two mutually exclusive? Quite the contrary. It is impractical and impossible for everyone to rule; thus, a higher degree of influence and power will always be retained by the selected few. ...