Help me out, here

[*michaelsean*]

(12-11-2021, 10:33 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: 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.

They vote against what you perceive to be their self-interest and what is important to them People are amazingly arrogant in their belief that they know what is in everyone else’s interest.