Atheism and democracy

[Angrboda]

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

— U.S. Declaration Of Independence


"Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate
into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous
to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary."

— H.L. Mencken


As usual, the question of what possibly could happen is considerably less interesting than the question of what will happen.

I read a paper in college that suggested that if a class of a country's citizenry were denied full access and power of the rights of the whole, they were proportionately less obligated to abide by, and support the state and its laws. Not sure I agree, but it is an interesting notion.

"One half of the people of this nation today are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one."
— An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the charge of illegal voting at the presidential election in November 1872

Moar at Hobbes, Jefferson, Rousseau, et al.