Another way to explain it, to get people to (hopefully) think about what and why “democracy” is an exceedingly bad idea.
Imagine for the sake of argument there were global elections. Would everyone else want India and China alone to decide everything for the rest of the world?
California and New York have far too much influence on the rest of the country as it is.
The various states are running into huge problems as well, at the county level. “One man one vote” was how an important US supreme court decision was described, that states formerly used in a similar way to prevent one or two cities from dominating the rest of the state. Each county had representation in the state legislature, typically.
Leftists decry such mechanisms as “Anti Democratic” and they are absolutely correct about that. This was on purpose, it isn’t some glaring oversight. The founders were smart. Democracy is an idiotic form of government, history is clear on that, it always leads to agitation, license, and discontent. Mobocracy. Then a dictatorship. You can vote your way into “free &$it” socialism, but you can’t vote your way out.
Funny, that.
In his confirmation hearing, justice Bork destroyed Ted Kennedy on this. The Swimmer was blathering on about one man, one vote. Bork told that, if the people of this country wanted that, they can enact it through legislation and then the Senate will be illegal.
“Another way to explain it, to get people to (hopefully) think about what and why “democracy” is an exceedingly bad idea.”
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Democracy is two wolves and one sheep voting on what’s for dinner. What we have is a representative republic with a Constitution, which protects the right of not just the 49% who might be in the minority on any given issue, but even a single individual against everyone else in society. At least in theory it does that. With democracy, there is no chance whatsoever that either an individual or a minority of any size will be protected against the whims of the majority. An unfettered democracy, despite how good it sounds on the surface, is really nothing more than mob rule.