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"Undemocratic" isn't a bad thing. Democracy is nothing more than two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for dinner.
by amyjess 10y ago
"Undemocratic" isn't a bad thing. Democracy is nothing more than two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for dinner.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoIt's pithy, it highlights the problem of the Tyranny of the Majority, but I feel democracy has more about it than that. To borrow your analogy: In general there are more sheep than wolves, but the wolves have a habit of twisting things - gerrymandering will give them a fresh kill for every vote.
- toyg 10y agoThis sort of analysis has already been done in the last century, but it seems like it's recently been drowned out by misinformation. Suffice to say, a modern democracy is supposed to have strong safeguards for minorities; take filibustering, for example, or the various human-rights courts and treaties. Modern democracy is not just "one head, one vote", or there would be no safeguards against a new Holocaust.