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> Democracy is what the people want. Majoritarianism is blindly doing what most people want. Is democracy what most people want or just the people?
by adolph 3y ago
> Democracy is what the people want. Majoritarianism is blindly doing what most people want.
Is democracy what most people want or just the people?
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> democracy what most people want or just the people People, broadly. (And unfortunately, ambiguously.) It is not what most people want, that’s majoritarianism, a known failure mode for democratic systems. The majority voting to execute the 10% whose views they don’t believe in is fine, electorally, but bankrupt, democratically.
- Exoristos 3y agoI think what JumpCrisscross is saying here is democracy is what the people are _supposed_ to want.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> what JumpCrisscross is saying here is democracy is what the people are _supposed_ to want No, it’s not.