Reply #2: I have a rather quirky view:

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The Senate is the body that filibusters the House.

Both aim at a kind of defense of the minority from the tyranny of the majority.

I've seen views of "democracy" around here--sometimes, not even daily--that are truly democratic, but far from being Democratic. Democracy has a lot of variants, mob rule being one of them. My stock example is that in a pure democracy 50% + 1 of the electorate could decide that all blacks (or any other minority, or any other group that doesn't vote in sufficient numbers) should be immediately stripped of all property and rights and become property. A perfectly democratic process, and in some cases what's been proposed by "progressives" has absolutely no impediment to such an action's being taken, apart from the beneficence and enlightenment of the majority.

Some of these same people, however, are convinced that the masses are idiots. So, yes, they really want to have a mass of idiots given absolute political and legal power, if they thought it through. (Then again, they're probably part of the masses themselves.)


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