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(60,014 posts)these people are fucking idiots
J_William_Ryan
(1,753 posts)minority rule is hostile towards liberty, peace, and prosperity.
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)"When conservatives find their policies so unpopular they cannot prevail at the polls, they will not alter their views. They will reject democracy."
peggysue2
(10,828 posts)Mike Lee has joined the fascist club because a democratic Republic is just too hard to control, particularly when you're in the minority but pretend you aren't.
genxlib
(5,526 posts)Minority rule because "they" know what's best for us.
Oneironaut
(5,493 posts)This is the current state of their party. They favor strongmen who focus all of their energy on aesthetics and fake social hierarchies vs. honoring norms and maximizing freedom and economic mobility.
They are not small government Republicans. They are Fascists. Check out Umberto Ecos Ur Fascism.
There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)Soldiers of this nation died for Democracy. You just spit on their graves!
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Silent3
(15,210 posts)...where whatever the mob wants, the mob gets. That's why we have a constitutional democracy, that puts some rights and liberties beyond the reach of simple majority rule.
However, what he's defending is minority rule by Republicans, no matter what, simply because he wants to claim Republicans are the only ones capable of maintaining liberty, peace... and whatever that other thing is.
Disgusting.
Progressive dog
(6,900 posts)in a democracy.
It's tough to have peace when self proclaimed superiors try to perpetuate themselves in power.
How can liberty exist without equality? Equal rights means equal votes that are counted.
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)gristy
(10,667 posts)He just comes out and says it. Holy cow.
Enoki33
(1,587 posts)WSHazel
(159 posts)No coming back from it now.