Why would aristophanes choose to present socrates

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Socrates actually refused to teach the art of making the weaker argument defeat the stronger but in the clouds, Aristophanes shows him teaching how to win any case stall why were the powers of persuasion considered potentially dangerous in democratic athen? Why would Aristophanes choose to present Socrates in this way?

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