I suppose that depends on what side you’re on. For Conservatives the minority rights seem important since Gerrymandering and the very makeup of the electoral college and the Senate heavily favor rural voters and thus, Conservatives. “Tyranny of the minority”, so to speak.
If you game the system, you never have to win an election to hold power here. Pretty neat system if you don’t have majority support of the voters.
But here is the thing, the minority takes these advantages and implements laws that severely restrict the rights of the majority. And when the majority attempts to use the power of their vote to fix these transgressions against them, they are called tyrants. Granted, a Republic is just a form of Democracy, but it is Democracy all the same.
In other words, if the game is slanted towards you and you still lose, that is on you, not on the disadvantaged players that still win. And that isn’t tyranny, that is you sucking at the game.
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