The American 'democracy' was precisely made to ignore that 'consent' and allow the minority to dominate the majority. John Adams had made no secret of that in h

The American 'democracy' was precisely made to ignore that 'consent' and allow the minority to dominate the majority. John Adams had made no secret of that in his advocacy. As for the anti-Revolutionary English establishment propaganda that you so unwittingly repeated - I have no problem rooting for the French Revolution with all its faceds included - 'the terror' being no exception. See my other reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33899841 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33899841 Even as that 'terror' was happening in France and executing the aristocrats and their surrogates found to have conspired with enemies to repress their own people for their benefit, the 'democratic' Britain was executing ~1000 commoners per year through the local feudal lords acting as 'justice of the peace' and executing people at their whim. Beyond that, here is how 'humane' that establishment itself was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre That's terror. That's repression. Amazingly the 300-year-long propaganda of the aristocrats that were so threatened in England by the revolution turns it around and makes it upside down.