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by forgottenacc57 3255 days ago
Edward DeBono calls democracy a "dictatorship of the majority", i.e. we vote in a new dictator every 4 years.
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Except the courts override a lot. And he doesn't make any actual laws(although regulations are trouble enough half the time).
That idea was discussed quite long ago in such terms[0], during the founding of this upstart little republic.

[0] at the time, they used 'tyranny of the majority'