Demagogue
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Demagogue
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Re: Demagogue
#2It's curious that a word literally meaning "leader of the people" has a such negative connotation while democracy, which literally means "rule by the people" has such a positive one. How can there be a democracy without demagogues?
Re: Demagogue
#3It's curious that a word literally meaning "leader of the people" has a such negative connotation while democracy, which literally means "rule by the people" has such a positive one. How can there be a democracy without demagogues?
Perhaps a tangent: If there is a dataset of word connotations vs word meaning closeness, this can be extended to find other language inconsistencies.