Tyranny of the Majority

[Forest Simmons]

One example I had in mind was Rwanda.  Majority rule or minority rule,
same result: genocide. Solution: compromise candidate with approval from
both extremes.

Forest

On Sat, 5 May 2001, Anthony Simmons wrote:

> >> From: DEMOREP1 at aol.com
> >> Subject: Re: Tyranny of the Majority
> 
> >> How often to > 50 percent majorities tyrannize themselves
> >> (for decades or centuries) as compared to thousands of
> >> years of tyranny by monarchies / oligarchies ???
> 
> How often do absolute monarchs tyrannize themselves?
> 
> Here's the question I would ask:  Does the majority tend to
> tyrannize the minority?
> 
>