No one is justifying anything except what is intended by the republic: a market

No one is justifying anything except what is intended by the republic: a market competition for influence. The fact that different sets of elites rotate in and out is a feature of continuous adaptation. It’s the noisest political system doing the most dirty laundry in pubic, but it still works better than the rest by adapting to that rotation of elites rather than calsifying on ‘bad emperors’ as in china and russia, or ‘bad priests’ as in iran.
What you’re saying is you don’t want to have to compete in the market for influence.
Because you’d lose.

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