On 9/27/2015 12:55 PM, John Mikes wrote:
Bruno, it seems I cannot shake you out from the 'classical' format that -WHOEVER (Nominative, not: "whomever" which is Accusative) *lies* himself into getting the (questionable?) majority of the voting population (and THEN can do WHATEVER his interest dictates - in the name of such majority - ) means /D E M O C R A C Y /. NO, it does not. You may call it a distortion, or any political malaise, but democracy (the cratos of the demos) is the rule of the (entire) population, not a select majority only, leaving any size of minority suppressed in the system. It is not timely, to implement such system in our (ongoing) World. - So be it. - I try to keep the vocabulary clean and do not compromise for ongoing corruptions.
That's not even a system. Rule by the entire population would require the entire population to agree on rules. As Lyndon Johnson once said, "If two people agree on everything only one of them is doing the thinking." A democracy necessarily must have some way of deciding rules that people do not all agree on. Majority vote seem to be the only workable one; although there are many variants to deal with multiple choices (plurality, ranking, run-offs...). The way to avoid suppression of minorities is to limit the range of action of the government. Define individual rights which are beyond the reach of majority vote.
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