Alexis de Tocqueville considered that American democracy engendered a double danger. On the one hand, it laid the foundations for the destruction of the aristocratic order by manipulating the possibilities of all citizens, but at the same time, it had what it called the dictatorship of the majorities. Tocqueville was critical of the relentless pursuit of profit or wealth accumulation and the cult of individuality that were already beginning to diagram American society. I believe that this is one of the most primary elements that were present within Tocqueville works, and implemented later on by Robert Reich in his literary work “Broken
Alexis de Tocqueville considered that American democracy engendered a double danger. On the one hand, it laid the foundations for the destruction of the aristocratic order by manipulating the possibilities of all citizens, but at the same time, it had what it called the dictatorship of the majorities. Tocqueville was critical of the relentless pursuit of profit or wealth accumulation and the cult of individuality that were already beginning to diagram American society. I believe that this is one of the most primary elements that were present within Tocqueville works, and implemented later on by Robert Reich in his literary work “Broken