10-06-2020, 08:16 PM
(10-06-2020, 08:03 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: we didn't operate very democratically for most of those 200 years. Nothing wrong with wanting government to work for the majority rather than just the minority.
I think a lot of people get lost in the idea that the founding fathers did not like a democracy. Majority rule on its own is flawed and had been known to result in oppression of the minority. Our system is intended to protect the minority from the majority, but the issue is that our system has evolved into one in which the minority rules. A minority of the voters elected Donald Trump. A minority of the voters elected the Republicans in the Senate. As a result of this, they have filled court vacancies with ideologically aligned jurists, meaning jurists that align with a minority of the population.
So while our representative democracy was intended to protect the minority, instead we have minority rule.
"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
