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Oppression of minorities is really just the outcome of democracy on long enough time scales. Run a democracy long enough and you'll have the boot of 51% of the
by willcipriano 2y ago
Oppression of minorities is really just the outcome of democracy on long enough time scales. Run a democracy long enough and you'll have the boot of 51% of the population on the other 49.
- UncleEntity 2y agoWhich, ironically, is a very good argument in favor of the 2nd Amendment...
- coldtea 2y ago>Run a democracy long enough and you'll have the boot of 51% of the population on the other 49. Why is there a 49% of people with widely different ideas about what's to be done and what's good than the rest 51% of them? What kind of fucked up society would that be? Democracy pressuposses a shared base consensus about reality and what's good, and then arguing about the specifics and the approaches.