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Technically the democratic process is when the larger number gang tells the smaller number gang what to do.



That technicality is a poison.

When people say democracy they generally don't mean it. They mean instead a system that protects the few from the overmighty many just as much as it protects the many from the overmighty few.

I honestly wish people would quit hanging this ideal on the merely mechanical idea of democracy. Since that mechanism is incompatible with it in many edge cases.




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