Yes, but can you make the defence of the converse? Suppose that (democratic) minorities need a little extra weight -- then you'd need an electoral college? Su

Yes, but can you make the defence of the converse? Suppose that (democratic) minorities need a little extra weight -- then you'd need an electoral college? Suppose the 'dripping fear-mongering' is a dislocation of a certain other emotion: discontent, pershaps? disagreement? Suppose you make a defence that the situation is indeed a healthy one. What would you say then? I am not saying it is -- but to get beyond this ideological analysis we need to engage with, say, 'the horror of the health of policitics' -- that the thing we most dispise may well be a symptom of what we, ourselves, prescribe