railing against the impeachment of President Donald Trump brought into stark relief a problem with representative government that has brought the most ancient and the most prominent of modern democracies to existential crisis.
Supporters of democratic governance have feared mob rule since the ancient Greeks. Devices such as the Senate and Electoral College in the US and the approval of legislation by Peers under the UK's constitutional monarchy are designed to protect against this type of governing by the whim of the masses.
Yet today — from the minority's election of a new Brexit-focused Conservative Party government in the UK to the minority's protection of a US president deemed undesirable and unfit for office by the majority — we find ourselves with systemic factional dictatorship.— and the second time in this century alone— the US has a president elected by the minority of Americans.
This is due in part to the unanticipated growth in the number of low population states in the US. It is also due to the inherently anti-federalist, self-sufficient views of many who live in areas removed from the complexities of life in the more diverse and larger economies of the more populous states. This affords a rich soil for conservative Republican and right-libertarian ideologies to dominate the political and social debate therein.
Yes, the opposition party fielded an awful, deeply unpopular candidate, but the existential nature of Brexit almost certainly meant that a vote cast for the aggressively pro-Brexit parties was a vote cast against remaining in the EU.
DanielAlpert Assertions without foundations.
DanielAlpert You forgot to mention 2015 election. Tories were the only party to allow a EU vote. 2017 May had the largest party. The mps voted for article 50. So your whole story about Brexit is all fake news! The prior voted to leave many times!!!
DanielAlpert Ummm .....UK had general election just over 2 weeks ago ......and Conservative Party won huge majority in a vote of confidence by citizens .......that's hardly out of touch with country
DanielAlpert By “the rest of the country” do you mean the liberal coastlines? Just trying to get a complete understanding of how this is defined.
DanielAlpert Huh?
DanielAlpert Is that why they won by a landslide
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