Socrates Was Against Democracies

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil ignorance...  SOCRATES

Knowledge is defined as:  facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.

SOCRATES was not supportive of democracies because of this knowledge or the lack thereof when it came to voting for those who would govern the masses...  and, because of this lack of knowledge, the people...  the masses...  the general public...  could be easily persuaded by an individual or individuals who had convincing rhetoric, even that rhetoric mislead them...

The elections of 2016 and 2020 are examples of what SOCRATES feared regarding democracy and the evil of ignorance.

Socrates (c. 469 - 399 B.C.) was a hugely important Greek philosopher from the Classical period (often known as the Socratic period in his honor). Unlike most of the Pre-Socratic philosophers who came before him, who were much more interested in establishing how the world works, Socrates was more concerned with how people should behave, and so was perhaps the first major philosopher of Ethics.

An enigmatic figure known to us only through other people's accounts (principally the dialogues of his student Plato), he is credited as one of the founders of Western Philosophy. He is considered by some as the very antithesis of the Sophists of his day, who claimed to have knowledge which they could transmit to others (often for payment), arguing instead that knowledge should be pursued for its own sake, even if one could never fully possess it.

He made important and lasting contributions in the fields of Ethics, Epistemology and Logic, and particularly in the methodology of philosophy (his Socratic Method or "elenchus"). His views were instrumental in the development of many of the major philosophical movements and schools which came after him, including Platonism (and the Neo-Platonism and Aristotelianism it gave rise to), Cynicism, Stoicism and Hedonism.