This may seem a strange thing to say: Democracy isn’t actually about finding out what the people want and just trying to do it. Democracy is about setting out a vision and a plan for the country and persuading people to follow it.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    there was a time when popular opinion was that black people shouldn’t have any civil rights.

    there’s a time now where popular opinion is that trans people shouldn’t have any rights.

    majority rule governments never work.