Thread:Ursuul/@comment-71.114.49.24-20171214203511/@comment-28083312-20171215154222

We are a republic, & not a direct democracy, for a reason. When the Founding Fathers set it up so that electors in the Electoral College could ignore their voters, do you think that was unintentional? Just, accident? ;)

But yeah, mob rule leads to abuses, because the public can quite easily get into a frenzy (like they are rn for NN) when a frenzy isn’t exactly the right state of mind to make decisions. I betcha right now if we held a referendum on whether to fire Ajit Pai rn, the majority would vote to fire him; but we don’t do it that way, because he’s just doing his job & wouldn’t deserve such a thing. Just because we aren’t a direct democracy, doesn’t mean that we aren’t democratic; we’re a Republic. Think of this; back in the day, the majority of people were racist & wanted schools segregated, but it was largely the courts enforcing the constitution (against the majority at the time) that saved minority rights.