I think too often these days politics is affected by a simple unwillingness to either see or to face up to the factors that mark it for what it is in a crude, effective pattern. ( cut for FLs )
I do not advocate it, but rather note that it is the realistic determiner of good and evil and right and wrong. What I'd advocate would be a world based on a different, alternate principle.
It was that there was no answer. You should look at how people who weren't Socrates' disciple portrayed the guy in Greek sources. It was not a nice portrayal by any means, and that sophistry was a major part of it.
Here is an interesting song that advocates the doctrine of might makes right:
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I'm not an expert in Plato, but I think Socrates said that the good is beyond the real, and beyond what we think the good is.
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