Re:Anti-Tax Fervor Closed Their Libraries. Now Residents Are...
by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:17PM
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> What makes you the person who gets to decide for them what they should or shouldn’t spend their money on?
I don't know who is qualified to be that person, but somebody has to if you want to avoid tyranny-of-the-majority. "You can do any goddamn thing you want as long as you can convince 51 voters out of 100 to back you" is not sustainable. (See e.g. unpunished lynchings in the post-Civil War South.)
I don't know who is qualified to be that person, but somebody has to if you want to avoid tyranny-of-the-majority. "You can do any goddamn thing you want as long as you can convince 51 voters out of 100 to back you" is not sustainable. (See e.g. unpunished lynchings in the post-Civil War South.)