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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Yes, and I know people like you want to equate my self interest to racism, but there are people of color in my state, so no.
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Idk where racism entered this discussion (Ty didn't mention it), but if Ty is suggesting people should put the interests of "democracy" above their own self-interest, I'd say he's stretching the definition of naivete to a point where we're going to need a new term.
Self-interest makes the world go round. Sometimes, it becomes too extreme and it needs to be tempered. But the suggestion one must choose between the doing what's right for "democracy" and what's right for himself is both silly and false. These aren't mutually exclusive all the time, and nobody's going to agree to live under the rules of majority unless those rules benefit him.
The thinking behind majority rule is that most people will get what they want. And what do they want? What's in their self interest.
I think it was de Tocqueville who noted even a democratic republic like ours would only survive until people voting themselves benefits from the treasury had done so for a sustained period of time.
(Don't write some dumb response blaming this all on one party, Ty. That's a dullard's discussion.)
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