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by ZeroGravitas
1490 days ago
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So Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocquevill, touring the US at a time (1831) when Women, Black people, Jews, White men without property etc. were regularly unable to vote concludes that the big issue of concern is that the democratic majority might pass laws affecting a minority? That seems almost perverse. Yes, but what if we freed the hostages and then they all went out and kidnapped someone? Then we (we being the previous kidnappers) would be no better off! Probably best not to rush into this new fangled democracy thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_voting_rights_in... He's literally and openly writing a book on how with his guidance a democracy can run a society as 'well' as an aristocracy does. |
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