Modern republics/democracies as governments, all of them, are oligarchies of some sort of another. They only reflect "the people" to the extent that the oligarchy draws into it new talented members from the masses from time to time in a gradual replacement as older members die off or lose importance.
The current oligarchs in the West, in large part, are amoral and some are satanist pedophiles, so I suppose they can be classified as pragmatic from a certain point of view.
Modern republics/democracies as governments, all of them, are oligarchies of some sort of another. They only reflect "the people" to the extent that the oligarchy draws into it new talented members from the masses from time to time in a gradual replacement as older members die off or lose importance.
The current oligarchs in the West, in large part, are amoral and some are satanist pedophiles, so I suppose they can be classified as pragmatic from a certain point of view.
Oy vey!