05-28-2021, 10:14 PM
(05-28-2021, 04:41 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote: Other Millennials are why I hate the term democracy. Democracy to me means tyranny of the majority
That is why we have constitutional protections against mob rule including prohibitions against a majority taking away the rights of helpless people. Majority rule is not enough; lynch mobs reliably make their decisions based on a majority vote. We cannot have votes that outlaw a religion or mandate adherence to any religion.
It is worth remembering that the Nazi Reichstag unanimously approved the three Nuremberg laws.. well, the majority really did enact a law as decisively as possible. Obviously a legislature that the executive branch has picked has dubious credibility. Majority votes, even if 876-0, that destroy civil rights of others, are contrary to the human decency that, for example the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments of the Constitution of the United States.
Pure democracy, one person said, is five wolves and one sheep deciding between them what is for dinner. It's terribly unstable, and as early as in the time of the Greek Golden Age the great thinkers disparaged that sort of democracy. Constitutional democracy means that the majority must respect the rights of the majority. The majority has no right to dispossess, enslave, or murder the minority.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
