Aristotle 
- Branko Ve Poljanski
The President and his left-wing medias lackeys seem not to understand the results of the Congressional midterm elections. I don’t think it’s difficult at all. Here are two relevant quotations, the first from Aristotle’s Politics—with which I’m sure our “we’re smarter than you are” overlords have an intimate familiarity—and the second from Serbian poet Branko Ve Poljanski, explaining to F. T. Marinetti why he could not accept fascism:
Aristotle: “The main cause of the overthrow of democracies is the outrageous behavior of demagogues. By attacking property owners they motivate them to band together out of fear, and they also spur on the people [to try to bleed the property owners]…. This is more or less the way democracies are destroyed. To win popular support, demagogues propose unjust treatment for the notables and thus force them to band together, by making them give up their property for redivision, or by having them expend their resources on public service, or by slandering them to force confiscations of their property.” (Politics 1304b: 20-1305a7)
Poljanski: “the politicians, together with their brethren the professors, ruined the world!”
The View from Alexandria 
But the only point of reading dead white straight European males is better to understand how hopelessly wrong they were. I mean, Aristotle never read Zizek or Foucault! He had no understanding of feminist, post-colonial, post-structuralist, critical Theory!
Whenever I read Aristotle, or some of the other Greeks of his era, I realize that human nature has changed not a whit for at least 2,300 years. When I talk about it with university “educated” people they insist we have “evolved” a long way during that period. Bollocks.