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Originally Posted by jambutty

Don’t be stupid.

What sane group would vote to lose half their income before even getting access to it?

No sane person does......yet it still happens.

I was merely making the point that democracy is mob rule, which makes it a very dangerous form of government. But what care you if the majority vote comes at the expense of the minority.

To paraphrase one of Cyfr's favorite quotes.....
"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner."

'Tis better, I think, to restrain the wolves and arm the sheep.