Donald J. Trump: The American Pericles?

"Petty thieves hang, great ones escape." - Russian proverb

If democracy means "people power", why do people in modern democracies feel so powerless? The crisis of the twenty-first century is the crisis of democracy. The illusion of power is no longer sufficient for the masses. They demand actual power. They are sick of the rich, globalist elites spouting the rhetoric of "freedom and democracy", while treating the people as nobodies, and securing for themselves the most envious of lifestyles, which they then pass on to their children, and which they deny to everyone else. The game is over. The con has run its course.

We have all been victims of hucksters selling us a scam. We are all told how wonderful democracy is, but the only people benefiting from it are elite oligarchs. More and more, "freedom and democracy" appears to be "freedumb and dumbocracy".

What's to be done? There's no point in appealing to the elites since they are the ones who led us to this crisis. There are two ways forward: 1) return to a truer, more fundamental form of democracy, and 2) introduce outsiders who are not part of the prevailing ideology of the ruling political establishment.

To understand true democracy, we need to go back to the people who invented it: the ancient Athenians. The greatest champion of democracy was Pericles, one of the most remarkable figures in history. What can we learn from Pericles and ancient Greek culture?

Donald J. Trump is no Pericles. However, he is a political outsider, and not part of the Washington D.C. establishment. If Trump becomes President he will radically shake things up for no other reason than that he does not belong to the existing political hegemony. On that basis alone, it's worth giving him a try. He couldn't be any worse than what has come before. As for Hillary Clinton, she would keep the machine ticking along exactly as it always has, i.e. the people who were getting screwed before would be getting screwed after. The screwers would stay exactly the same.

We need a change. Any change at all is now desirable. It's time for democracy to take a great leap forward, by revisiting its Athenian past!