Re:How could 63% of people be wrong? (Score 1)

Hi, logic has things called fallacies, one of them being argumentum ad populum, which states that because the majority of people thinks it is true, does not mean that it is. For example a majority of born-again christians believe that there is no such thing as evolution. Born-again christians probably outnumber say scientists. Scientists disagree with this and since they study the subject it is more probable that the scientists are correct. Therefore your point has validity. The majority view is not correct. But can I make this point that at least with a democracy you get what you deserve. You elect for a number of years some dweeb that you hope will lead the country properly and hope that they don't suspend habeus corpus etc, but after the term it turns out that that dweeb did do that, you can vote out that particular dweeb and vote another in. If you were suckered in by the ads and PR to vote for the extinction of habeus corpus it is your fault. If you did not vote for that dweeb but you were too lazy to try and stop that dweeb from being voted in by protesting in some non violent fashion, then it is also your fault. Either way, you got what you deserved. In a dictatorship you have no way of changing the system except through revolution. There are a few things which make a democracy powerful. One is the right to vote. In some ways this is not so important because in our system it only happens every few years. The more important things are that you can say what you want to at any time and if it is persuasive enough you can change opinion, even in Texas. You can make a right opinion the majority opinion. In other words in a democracy, you can dissent from the common view. This is what makes a democracy powerful because you can point out that a majority opinion is wrong or for that matter a government and you can keep on doing so unless some dweeb puts in censorship laws....