User talk:Mike Rosoft/Wikipedians for encyclopedic merit

What is the difference between "Democracy" and "a Dictatorship of the Majority"??

A "Democracy" is a government in which the majority rules. The minority has NO say. Democracy also means that the minority of any particular issue or idea have no rights, no say!

There is nothing protecting the minority from the majority! If the majority passes a law that all oriental people have to pay double the taxes of non-orientals, that would be DEMOCRACY! Just look at "Palestine" where Hamas was elected to be the government. Everyone must now bow to a terrorist group's laws! The United States has a Constitutional Republic. For some reason people, including our own presidents, keep saying we are a Democracy. We are NOT. "Mob-Rule" IS Democracy. We are supposed to have very limited government which cannot infringe upon our constitutional rights (whether or not our government still is of and for the people is definitely up for debate though...)---Jf (talk) 13:24, 28 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Please explain to me how "Democracy" and "Dictatorship of the Majority" are so different. Aren't you essentially a dictator?  You don't respect anything other users say also you're quite paranoid (such as dictators)User:207.101.97.17.101.97.12
 * Hey is it too late to comment on this? I just wanna say I'm no political expert, but I think the difference becomes clear if we consider "liberal democracies" versus other democracies.  I'm not exactly sure of the definition, but I think this form of democracy requires that individual and civil liberties be protected.  A non-liberal democracy might involve a dictatorship of the majority since whatever the majority wants, goes, even if it really hurts some people.  But its harder for there to be "dictatorship" of anything in a liberal democracy, because while the majority gets to decide, the majority can't just make the government randomly violate peoples rights, the government is required to uphold certain rights for everyone. 71.113.46.38 (talk) 09:06, 2 December 2009 (UTC)