Does Democracy Really End? Could Socrates, Plato, or Aristotle predict the crash and burn of the Greek empire? Could the Romans accept that all roads would not always lead to Rome? Could the United States government predict if the end was near? Democracy has an expiration date or so democracy did in the past. There has never been a successful democracy that has been able to withstand greed and the hunger for more. The quote, “Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide,” echos the history of democracy. The Greeks and Romans, despite being elected by the people, in the end could not withstand human weaknesses. I truly believe in the end, the inner
