you don't have to be educated to know what you personally want. A democracy is the collective agreement to go with the majority view.
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Replying to @Zacnaloen @crash_matrix
Which is why it can have good or bad results. If majority are, say, religious right - Christian or Muslim - I'd be less keen on democracy.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @crash_matrix
It's how you lose thats important as well as how u win. I've been unhappy with the results of democracy for many years now, but with Brexit
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Replying to @Zacnaloen @crash_matrix
There's a line. Can go with the majority only so far. If a majority voted to take my rights away & stick me in a Burka, I'd not be gracious.
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Replying to @crash_matrix @Zacnaloen
Yeah. I want one of those. First set out inalienable rights that can't be taken away if far-left, far-right, Islamists etc get dominant.
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Although, in practice, if they got dominant enough, a constitution wouldn't stop them.
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