BuckToothMoron
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It was the correct action--he must know a thing or two about how our govt. was set up.The tyranny of the majority...must be avoided.Well fuck me silly! I voted for Laxalt, mainly because I didn't feel a Democrat governor would care about the needs of the Republicans in our state. However, Sisolak just got me backing him, and probably a lot of the other rednecks in congressional district 3. Sandoval had my support, because I felt that he cared about all the Nevadan people, and after this move, Sisolak has the same support now.
I'm not a Trump fan..but that does not matter...it is the process that is important, in the long run..all Americans deserve a voice.
Is the election of the president the only thing that stands between the US succumbing to the tyranny of the majority? Having a representational government isn't the major check on that sort of mob rule, it's the electoral college?
I am constantly baffled by the implication so often put forth that this country is one election change away from a pure democracy; that somehow having the president elected by popular vote would circumvent the representative nature of government.
I actually have never heard (until now) ,the argument that a PV circumvents Representative Government. What does do is neuter the influence of less popular states.