Some thoughts about South Africa in the 50s-80s: Opposition to apartheid increased both internally and internationally. Nonwhites began terror campaigns against it, whites began to think of themselves as oppressors, and the international community imposed increasing penalties.
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Well I think we know how this turned out. Some managed to sell their assets while the selling was good and escape rather than remain subject to the hostile majority. Others stayed and are currently in the process of losing everything.
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Yes, they managed to retain their holdings for a time and even benefit from the lifting of sanctions, but the gains were fleeting. The majority would never be satisfied with a market dominant minority holding most of the wealth, and democracy would ensure the majority's will.
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Addendum: Maybe the whites thought the constitution would protect them? Perhaps it did for a number of years, but now the majority is amending the constitution.
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This is the point at which the thought-process you're so convincingly describing stumbles into madness.
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