12-11-2021, 10:33 AM
(12-10-2021, 10:18 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Well if the people don’t think we need it then we don’t need it. Unless you all want to make social revolution compulsory.
People vote against their own self interests all the time. While we often think of representative democracy being designed to protect the minority, it is also intended to allow policies to go forward that the general public would be too ignorant to push through. We just need policymakers to do their job..
Also, we have things forced on the majority by the minority all the time through this system.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
