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Tyranny of the majority (or tyranny of the masses) refers to an inherent weakness of direct democracy and majority rule in which the majority of an electorate can place its own interests above, and at the expense of, those in the minority. This results in oppression of minority groups comparable to that of a tyrant or despot.[1]
Potentially, through tyranny of the majority, a disliked or unfavored ethnic, religious, political, or racial group may be deliberately targeted for oppression by the majority element acting through the democratic process.[2]
American founding father Alexander Hamilton writing to Jefferson from the Constitutional Convention argued the same fears regarding the use of pure direct democracy by the majority to elect a demagogue who, rather than work for the benefit of all citizens, set out to either harm those in the minority or work only for those of the upper echelon. The Electoral College mechanism present in the indirect United States presidential election system, and the phenomenon of faithless electors allowed for within it, was, in part, deliberately created as a safety measure not only to prevent such a scenario, but also to prevent the use of democracy to overthrow democracy for an authoritarian, dictatorial or other system of oppressive government.[3] As articulated by Hamilton, one reason the Electoral College was created was so "that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications".[4]
The scenarios in which tyranny perception occurs are very specific, involving a sort of distortion of democracy preconditions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
Majority rules, we need another stronger word for Hypocrisy the Republicans have blasted past the norms of everything in a democracy.
insincerity double standard pretense duplicity two-facedness falseness deceitfulness bigotry deceit deception dishonesty fraud mockery affectation cant casuistry display dissembling dissimulation double-dealing falsity glibness imposture irreverence lie pietism quackery sanctimoniousness sanctimony speciousness unctuousness bad faith false profession lip service pharisaical pharisaism phoniness..............
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)in an attempt to fight against that and provide 'balance' we have succumbed, instead, to a tyranny of the minority.