ochlocracy

Your nation was founded upon this principle as a cornerstone, and yet you have regressed back to ochlocracy.

I want to say it's ochlocracy, but generally it's not just any kind of mob I'm thinking of, but the mob that is the loudest.

> It is however anarchyNo, it's ochlocracy; there's a reason the same people who named anarchy made a separate word for it.

Is the practical mechanism of ochlocracy that it's a democracy with sore winners?

We haven't tried any other emerging solutions such as global government or full on ochlocracy.

Good intention or not, it reeks of ochlocracy and ignorance, and throw in potential quasi-extortion-for-revenue tactics.

While a democracy doesn't automatically include these protections, you're certainly right that ochlocracy excludes them.

It can be a more or less slow evolution into an aristocracy or a monarchy, or a rather revolutionary change into an ochlocracy, oligarchy or a tyranny.

But I've seen many absolutist 'defenders of free speech' tip over into shouting down their opponents, and I don't care for ochlocracy any more than I care for institutional authoritarianism.

It is exactly the difference between democracy and ochlocracy - both are the rule by majority - that in democracy some minority rights are protected from even the majority rule, and such a judicial overturn is exactly a part of the democracy that ochlocracy lacks.

That full paragraph:"According to Polybius, who has the most fully developed version of the cycle, it rotates through the three basic forms of government, democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy and the three degenerate forms of each of these governments ochlocracy, oligarchy, and tyranny.