@PatrickoftheG

Except we, the people can change govt. It exists because we the masses let it.

When we organize and use it like that, the powerful will need to find new hobbies.

#majorityrule FTW. No more #minoritarians

A quotation from Herman Hesse

Now the bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self (rudimentary as his may be). And so at the cost of intensity, he achieves his own preservation and security. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he does comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire. The bourgeois is consequently by nature a creature of weak impulses; anxious, fearful of giving himself away and easy to rule. Therefore, he has substituted majority for power, law for force, and the polling booth for responsibility.
 
[Der Bürger nun schätzt nichts höher als das Ich (ein nur rudimentär entwickeltes Ich allerdings). Auf Kosten der Intensität also erreicht er Erhaltung und Sicherheit, statt Gottbesessenheit erntet er Gewissensruhe, statt Lust Behagen, statt Freiheit Bequemlichkeit, statt tödlicher Glut eine angenehme Temperatur. Der Bürger ist deshalb seinem Wesen nach ein Geschöpf von schwachem Lebensantrieb, ängstlich, jede Preisgabe seiner selbst fürchtend, leicht zu regieren. Er hat darum an Stelle der Macht die Majorität gesetzt, an Stelle der Gewalt das Gesetz, an Stelle der Verantwortung das Abstimmungsverfahren.]

Herman Hesse (1877-1962) German-born Swiss poet, novelist, painter
Steppenwolf, “Treatise of the Steppenwolf,” ch. 2 (1927) [tr Breighton (1929)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hesse-herman/82858/

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Hesse, Herman - Steppenwolf, "Treatise of the Steppenwolf," ch. 2 (1927) [tr Breighton (1929)] | WIST Quotations

Now the bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self (rudimentary as his may be). And so at the cost of intensity, he achieves his own preservation and security. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he does comfort to pleasure, convenience…

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📰 Majority Rule: A New Japanese Survival Anime Exploring the Power of the Crowd

Get ready for the ultimate test of human nature in 'Majority Rule.' Can contestants outsmart their opponents in a sealed-room challenge where individual freedom is denied?

🔗 https://andaily.us/o13GS

#AnimeNews #twitter #MajorityRule

Just like Jan6th participants. ICE (and MAGA) have the bad guys self-identifying.

The scary thing is, if we ever got hold of the republican party's voter rolls, we'd have a list of probable domestic terrorists.

#MajorityRule

Democracy is a three-body problem to orders of magnitude.
Newton's clean equations work with two bodies. Add a third, and chaos sets in—no stable orbit, no final answer. Condorcet showed the same instability in voting: even perfectly rational citizens can produce collective contradictions.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/03/democracy-and-the-millions-body-problem/

#Democracy #Governance #PoliticalTheory #Enlightenment #DecisionMaking #Philosophy #ThreeBodyProblem #MajorityRule #Elections #HumanCondition #politics #Science

#Democrat Governor of #NY openly threatens to collude with political allies and corruptly #Gerrymander her state #votingdistricts to match similar #GOP efforts to sway control over other states they hold thin #MajorityRule in.

#FightFireWithFire ?

Irish Times editorial on big powers' wish to remove national veto: If Simion prevails in the second round of the Romanian election, it will increase pressure to move to QMV. The move to QMV would pose enormous challenges for Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit... #EU #Veto #QMV #MajorityRule

The Irish Times view on qualif...
The Irish Times view on qualified majority voteing: a concern for Ireland

The national veto has been the single most effective weapon in preserving the corporate tax regime

The Irish Times

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

Harper Lee

#quoteoftheday #majorityrule #conscience #BeingHuman

2️⃣ Demokratía (δημοκρατία) = Rule of the People. Sounds good, right? But the Greeks knew majority rule isn’t always justice. Democracy, without limits, was just as dangerous as tyranny. ⚖️

#MajorityRule #DemocraticDangers #LawMatters