Broken Government

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(10-06-2020, 08:16 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: 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.

This is why I avoided the phrase "majority rule". We currently allow for minority rule for those who disregard minority rights. If the minority ideology of this nation can dictate which rights are held by minority groups, while also refusing to consider legislation to aid the majority of people, we have a completely broken system.