Upstairs at Caroline
Tyranny of the Majority
RECEIVED Thu., April 11, 2019
Dear Editor,
Is there such a thing as mass insanity? If so, could the term “tyranny of the majority” apply?
Why not blame Queen Victoria? Wasn't it her grandchildren who were major players in world wars? Take Kaiser Wilhelm and Czar Nicholas, both grandsons of a dysfunctional mother/grandmother, but enduring queen. The extreme reaction to Germany's defeat in World War I lead to the economic collapse of Germany and the rise of Hitler.
So what? If Hitler's rise to power was layered, with an electoral college, the moorings of social sanity could have broadened German recovery and lead to world citizenship that precluded World War II.
Likewise, without the electoral college, both Al Gore and Hillary Clinton would have been president. Gore's election may have changed the dynamics of 9/11, but Hillary's election would have put a police state in control, not unlike a counterpoint in Russia under Putin's KGB.
So who wants to change our Constitution and drop layers of protection? Putin. Wouldn't be a bad guess. At that point, even Hitler could control this “tyranny of the majority.”
Is there such a thing as mass insanity? If so, could the term “tyranny of the majority” apply?
Why not blame Queen Victoria? Wasn't it her grandchildren who were major players in world wars? Take Kaiser Wilhelm and Czar Nicholas, both grandsons of a dysfunctional mother/grandmother, but enduring queen. The extreme reaction to Germany's defeat in World War I lead to the economic collapse of Germany and the rise of Hitler.
So what? If Hitler's rise to power was layered, with an electoral college, the moorings of social sanity could have broadened German recovery and lead to world citizenship that precluded World War II.
Likewise, without the electoral college, both Al Gore and Hillary Clinton would have been president. Gore's election may have changed the dynamics of 9/11, but Hillary's election would have put a police state in control, not unlike a counterpoint in Russia under Putin's KGB.
So who wants to change our Constitution and drop layers of protection? Putin. Wouldn't be a bad guess. At that point, even Hitler could control this “tyranny of the majority.”
Fred Stewart