Does a Feudal Democracy Qualify as a Democracy?

Lots of people assert that Democracy has it’s origins in Greek Culture, specifically in Athens. What they do not make any effort to delineate is the reality that, in Greek Culture, while there indeed was Democracy, it never amounted to more than a Feudal Democracy.

What then is a Feudal Democracy?

In a Feudal Democracy, only those who are rich and influential are electable. Everyone represented by the elected hopes on willingness of the elected to look out for their welfare. When hope breaks down, mob mentality takes over.

The Greek Feudal Democracy was built, in entirety, on hope, not capacity of the people for holding of their representatives accountable. Clearly, Greek Feudal Democracy falls short of the modern definition of Democracy. In this respect, consider that Greek Feudal Democracy does not look that much different from the Feudal Lordship arrangement of ancient England. In England, if the lords were benevolent, the people prospered, the people were happy. If the lords were malicious in their treatments of people, the people were exploited, the people were unhappy. Naturally, the Feudal Lordship arrangement was a microcosm of the relationship between the lords and the English Aristocracy. If the king of England was benevolent, the lords had it easy. If the king of England was…