(December 3, 2018 at 2:02 pm)wyzas Wrote:But the united states isn't a Democracy it's a Republic and even democracies like the one i live in don't make the majority an absolute .(December 3, 2018 at 1:58 pm)Amarok Wrote: Either can turn the knob and the ones who want to hear it can if they buy it . Sorry that wasn't clear my bad .
The idea that the minority should have to appease the majority has a long and awful history in and outside the law and has been backwards plenty of times .
The solution is some form of balance
That's not appeasement. That's one of the definitions of democracy, majority rules.
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