"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Supreme Court Right-Wingers Poison Majority-Rule Democracy
Good. This nation is not a majority-rule democracy. I have no intention of being subject to the whims of majority-rule democracy, given the willingness of the majority to surrender fundamental rights with pathetic, laughable ease. Campaign finance and the myriad of other systemic corruption issues do not occur because we don't have mob rule. They happen because most people have little interest in doing the hard work of keeping their politicians and assorted federal, state and local officials accountable, insisting that fundamental rights are respected, rather than continuously abridged and gradually regulated away.
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This horror of majority rule is a hangover from the aristocrat Montesquieu. I'm not a fan of it myself, being an anarchist; but I don't imagine "representative government" is any better for liberty than majority rule is. Indeed, in my current state Oregon, between what we get via Initiative and what we get from the legislature, I'll take the former every time, as it consistently leans more toward liberty than the legislature does. What's more, there is a lot less of it; the legislature considers something like 3000 bills every session.
Oh, and it is not the job of a free people to ride herd on corrupt "respresentatives".