Plato believed the general idea stated in the post, but he genuinely believed that that was a good thing because that meant he got to be powerful and maintain his influence.
Both plato and aristotle, but aristotle thought that any election-based state turned out in practice, to be an oligarchy or aristocracy, not a democracy (which he define as rule by the poor, with random selection by lot).
Aristotle’s politics books 4-6 talk a lot about this:
Help me source the Greek critique of electoralism. Was it Plato?
It’s Plato but it also isn’t a critique.
Plato believed the general idea stated in the post, but he genuinely believed that that was a good thing because that meant he got to be powerful and maintain his influence.
Both plato and aristotle, but aristotle thought that any election-based state turned out in practice, to be an oligarchy or aristocracy, not a democracy (which he define as rule by the poor, with random selection by lot).
Aristotle’s politics books 4-6 talk a lot about this:
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.4.four.html