Protecting the Wealthy, Avoiding Democracy

MY FATHER, A WORLD WAR TWO veteran, lawyer, and patriotic American, once said that, if you think about it,the best form of government is a benevolent dictatorship. Key word "benevolent". The problem with democracy, is that the poor people always greatly outnumber the wealthy, and if you have a political system in which everybody has equal power, then the poor will gang up on the wealthy, and since they outnumber them, will take their wealth away from them. People in general think this would be unfair, understandably. In other words, in any country with a big gap between the rich and the poor, like the United States, democracy is impossible. There are two possible solutions to this. One is to reduce or eliminate economic inequality. Aristotle thought this was the best idea. The other solution is to avoid having a democracy, and instead have a republic of the wealthy, and this was the solution James Madison, and the founders of the United States, chose. The American system was designed to give everyone as much freedom as possible, and to protect the property of the property owners, by keeping real political power away from the poor teeming masses. Madison called it "mob rule", meaning, poor people ganging up on the wealthy, like himself. So, the poor in America are "represented" by the wealthy, if "represented" is what you want to call it. It could also, in past times, and in our modern times, be called "ignored". The Senate was designed to be the domain of the wealthy powerful, and so it remains to this day. The less powerful House of Reps was designed to be closer to the people, but less powerful. In the beginning, America's wealthy powerful were land owning, educated men, and they are the ones who worte the rules. Today the American wealthy powerful are the corporations, and they are the ones who pay for the politicians, who write the rules, which, unsurprisingly, favor their corporate patrons.