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re: Should 49% of a country's population have to submit to 51%?
Posted on 1/9/23 at 7:35 pm to burger bearcat
Posted on 1/9/23 at 7:35 pm to burger bearcat
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For all the talk about "democracy", let's say Brazil and America's elections were actually 'legitimate" (they were not). Even if so, they were only by a slim majority.
To what extent does "democracy" supersede the rights of the 49%? If Lula is instituting a Chavez like regime. Why wouldn't Brazilian Patriots attempt to overthrow it? Just because 51% of the people want the other 49% in abject slavery, that means they should just have submit to it?
There are many people on this board who would have rooted for the tank in Tiananmen Square, and called the man standing in the way an "insurrectionist" and a "threat to democracy".Remember it was Mao who originally coined the term "Right Wing Extremists" to go attack his political opponents.
Further, does this make Nat Turner and John Brown "threats to democracy"? Since what they were rebelling against was supported by the majority of those states populations at the time?
republics are the way to go....tyranny of the majority is a real thing.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 7:36 pm to oklahogjr
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other
John Adams
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