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Re:The death of the private citizen? by BLKNSLVR on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @10:03PM (#23623103)
Isn't mob rule what we have now? Isn't democracy effectively mob rule? Where the mob is the majority - being a majority is how they become the mob.
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Re:The death of the private citizen? by cortesoft on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @10:12PM (#23623160)
No, we (the United States) have a system that is supposed to protect against mob rule, and why we don't have a pure democracy. This is why we have a constitution that takes more than a simple majority to change.

The whole idea of laws being ruled unconstitutional is that there are some things that even the majority can't do.

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