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hawkeyee:
But isn't that the freedom that you're fighting for? Everybody has the right to vote. The majority wins. That's just the way it is.
While you're unfortunately correct that currently that's "just the way it is", majority rule (the tyranny of the majority) is not what the founders of this country envisioned. The way it was SUPPOSED to work, was that there would be limits to what the government could do to people, no matter what the majority voted for.
Sadly, we've mostly gone away from that now. If the majority want to vote to steal the money of someone just because he is rich, or to force people to engage in commerce with a private company whether they want to or not, or to force people to violate their own personal religious beliefs, our Federal govt has declared that it does have the power to do these things. And our Supreme Court has declared that there is no limit to the power of the 536 thieving tyrants on Capitol Hill.
