I’ve been saying it for years. Democracy is cancer, @taxloopholes.

@taxloopholes

If the 51% decided they were going to make murder legal, and there was some sort of check on that, like say a Constitution, that check would be, by definition, undemocratic. Respecting the will of the people is great, but the people are by and large stupid, so leaders need to know when to deviate from what’s popular to what’s right.

Actually it would be perfectly democratic, just not constitutional. Democracy isn’t synonymous with constitution.

I think they are saying that a constitution is undemocratic.

Good thing we have a Republic and not a Democracy

This is why the founders took out the mob rule. The majority doesn’t always win, it’s the will of the people. People are stupid, a person is smart (most of the time). Hence the way we elect a President, electoral collage. You win the popular vote in that state you get the votes from the collage, but you have to win the majority of the States not the people. This gives low population states an equal footing against high population states. While it’s not truly equal it does allow a person to gather enough small states to overcome large ones. Popular vote doesn’t matter. It’s the States that matter. If it was done by popular vote then NY & Ca would rule us all.

It’s a Constitutional Republic.

@moosemarine, this is a concept I am constantly reminding people… We’ve never been a democracy. Every time Obama used the word democracy my skin would crawl. In a democracy 49 are made slaves by 51. This experiment in absolute Liberty gave the world a light on a hill, a beacon of hope to look to for inspiration. The problem with being a beacon….people gun for it. Evil hates a republic. It can manipulate a democracy, but a republic - a true republic, stands a Bulwark fortifying the free. Its my right to be free. If you dont like that, its your right to go fuck yourself….

things are getting heated in the right authoritarian fandom