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Originally Posted by elphenor
because people so often don't know what it means as a concept
the guiding principle of letting the People rule is virtuous by definition imo
but Democracy doesn't mean exclusively Mob Rule, often what defines a Democracy is its opposition rights
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to me it's more a lesser of evils than an inherent virtue. I don't care about everyone having equal say as an ideal. But the alternative of dictatorship just has more potential to go drastically wrong.
I'm fine with representative democracy as a compromise but I don't see the point in weighting the input of certain states over others. I've yet to hear anyone here offer any compelling reason why the electoral college is actually preferable to the popular vote...Big3 just made a vague appeal to mob rule not being ideal but I don't see how mob rule on the state level is somehow preferable.