Forum Post: Failure

Democracy has been dominated by the [spiritual] heirs of feudal aristocracy who invented capitalism to preserve their power and wealth. That happened before the 18th century beginnings of democratic republics. The rich have corrupted the people's advances from the very beginnings. That's not a failure of Democracy. It's a failure to address the real problem all along the historical path: the existence of the aristocrat class. We, the people, have failed ourselves.