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Which greek philosophers said that? and what did they say? do you have any sources to confirm?
Both plato and aristotle, but aristotle thought that any election-based state turned out in practice, to be an oligarchy or aristocracy, not a democracy (which he define as rule by the poor, with random selection by lot).
Aristotle's politics books 4-6 talk a lot about this:
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.4.four.html
In other words, what today we call "representative democracy", the ancient greeks correctly identified as oligarchy.
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The original image is uncited incendiary garbage. This is not a time where we need more division and infighting. If you can't be nice, please just stick to the facts.
The original image is a meme designed for humor over rational argument...
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