"Tyranny of the majority" is the phrase you're looking for, and it's why the federal government was styled as a Republic rather than a pure democracy. It's also what I think will lead to another civil war.
The left thinks that having a slim majority makes it OK to make life a living hell for the minority, who will just have to take it because the majority can use the legal system as a bludgeon against them. It really doesn't occur to them that the minority might just abandon the system entirely if it's rigged against them.
The progressives also believe everyone should vote. The last 150 years have proven definitively that everyone should not vote. The majority of people should not vote. Only people who take financial and personal, physical responsibility for the nation should vote. No one else.
Yes, I'm not sure how universal suffrage came to be considered a core component of American democracy, since the founding fathers didn't see it that way.
I personally believe we should have something like the service requirement in Starship Troopers to vote. At a minimum, those receiving public assistance shouldn't be allowed to vote, as they're basically deciding how to spend other people's money.
Same way that arbitrary immigration became an American value when the history is extreme caution, and it was unpopular with the rabble most of the time regardless.
That is to say that 60s progressives were able to elect a new electorate and were eager to erase history as soon as it happened.
"Tyranny of the majority" is the phrase you're looking for, and it's why the federal government was styled as a Republic rather than a pure democracy. It's also what I think will lead to another civil war.
The left thinks that having a slim majority makes it OK to make life a living hell for the minority, who will just have to take it because the majority can use the legal system as a bludgeon against them. It really doesn't occur to them that the minority might just abandon the system entirely if it's rigged against them.
The progressives also believe everyone should vote. The last 150 years have proven definitively that everyone should not vote. The majority of people should not vote. Only people who take financial and personal, physical responsibility for the nation should vote. No one else.
Yes, I'm not sure how universal suffrage came to be considered a core component of American democracy, since the founding fathers didn't see it that way.
I personally believe we should have something like the service requirement in Starship Troopers to vote. At a minimum, those receiving public assistance shouldn't be allowed to vote, as they're basically deciding how to spend other people's money.
Same way that arbitrary immigration became an American value when the history is extreme caution, and it was unpopular with the rabble most of the time regardless.
That is to say that 60s progressives were able to elect a new electorate and were eager to erase history as soon as it happened.