Why We Mock the Vote
2010-10-12 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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"Something doesn’t become right just because 50%+1 of the population say so. The very core of democracy is the idea that the numerical majority on any issue will have its way, with the minority being forced to submit. Imagine a world of just three people. When two off these people use their superior physical strength to gang up on the other, stealing his stuff and making him their slave, we call it thuggery. When they do it through the voting booth we call it the Voice of the People."
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Date: 2010-10-13 04:26 am (UTC)There are no some mythical "core of democracy".
The so called democracy is a system that developed for centuries, various means for protection of the minority opinion (especially means for protection of people bearing this opinion) is one of the key traits of democratic states.
The mentioned rule of thuggery you will find in the past USSR, modern Iran et cetera, and this is why they are democracies only on paper.
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Date: 2010-10-13 09:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-13 09:59 pm (UTC)Not so much. This is why we have the Judicial branch, to make sure that the people are restrained by the constitution.
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Date: 2010-10-19 10:09 am (UTC)