User blog comment:20thCentFopp/A Hymn To Democracy: Fantastic Four vs. Sub-Mariner/@comment-4652104-20131206105644/@comment-23748647-20131206142904

I think you miss my point about Athens. By the nature of it being a preferential democracy, which it is with terms such as Free -born and male, it makes it an oligarchy. This was discussion of ideology not reality. By the Enlightenment's extremely narrow definition the creation of early republicanism is astounding. In reality, the voting laws created, no women, no black slaves, no none landowners, the early US was an oligarchy as well. For further investigation of where I am coming from take a look at essays by Christopher Hitchens and Yuvel Levin. I'm not pulling that idea out of nowhere.

Frankly, I know nothing of what he is like today. I am really interested to know if the three dimensionality, almost the sans villainy, stuck with him up until today. In the Silver Age, he is often sympathetic.