Interesting article

[Anthony Simmons]

>> From: DEMOREP1 at aol.com
>> Subject: RE: Interesting article

>> Mr. Simmons wrote in part0

>> It's the tyranny-of-the-majority problem.  We choose between
>> the tyranny of local, provincial majorities, or tyranny of
>> great masses.

>> ---
>> D- Current reality -- tyranny of the small oligarchial
>> gerrymander indirect minority rule min-masses in the
>> U.S.A. Congress and every State legislature (tending
>> towards monarchy in the U.S.A. government in times of war
>> -- as is the current case)  --- circa 3 to 10 leaders in
>> each such house controlling the agenda.


There are successes and failures in both approaches if you
just look around.  For example, in the issue that matters to
this group -- making a sensible choice of election method --
it's been the local governments that have led the way, not
the feds.  All depends on your choice of issue.


>> Nations with semi-accurate indirect majority rule p.r.
>> systems -- Germany, New Zealand and even Israel (under
>> attack by killer suicide folks --- like the Japanese
>> kamikazes attacking U.S. Navy ships in World War II) ---
>> seem to survive without having too much alleged tyranny.


Depends on who's doing the alleging.  We all know how that
works.