Tyranny of the Majority

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>> D- How often do > 50 percent majorities tyrannize themselves
>> (for decades or centuries) as compared to thousands of
>> years of tyranny by monarchies / oligarchies ???

Mr. Simmons wrote-
How often do absolute monarchs tyrannize themselves?

D- Never. They tyrannize others.  Ask all the dead bodies killed by Kaiser 
Wilhelm, Lenin, Hitler, Stalin and Mao, for example.  
See The Outline of History by H.G. Wells for the tyrannical machinations of 
all sorts of monarchies and oligarchies over the centuries.

Mr. Simmons wrote-
Here's the question I would ask:  Does the majority tend to tyrannize the 
minority?

D- Only if the laws are not equal on their face (and in reality) and not 
equally enforced by executive and judicial officers)--- two very major 
separate problems (connected somewhat indirectly to election methods for the 
officers involved).