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Quote of the Day: Tyranny of the Minority
The tyranny of the minority is infinitely more odious and intolerable and more to be feared than that of the majority. —President William McKinley
No better example demonstrates the tyranny of the minority than the actions of the Leftists and their cohorts in academia and the legacy media; I use the word “minority” to identify their minority extreme views that don’t resonate with most Americans. In spite of those who say that we are a country divided, we can see that most of our citizens have not been afflicted with insanity and radical ideas, but the situation had to grow ugly enough (and painful enough) for all of us to see without a doubt how low our country had fallen.
A big part of the problem is that the Left doesn’t begin to understand how tyrannical they have been and will likely continue to be. They have deluded themselves into thinking that if the economy hadn’t tanked, if inflation hadn’t spiked, and fuel production hadn’t taken a dive, we would be willing to listen to them. They don’t understand that those issues (or the management of them) are paramount to our well-being, and we don’t want their radical agenda.
I am relieved to know that much of the country now understands the agenda of the Left which is self-serving and doesn’t serve the needs of U.S. citizens.
We need to hold fast in resisting them and continue to remind ourselves that they will not serve this country well.
We are the protectors of our nation and must take that calling to heart.
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Splendid quote, Susan. It reminds me of one from a President who came after McKinley, William Howard Taft: “No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”
Love it, Doug! Thanks for sharing it! Every reminder of their tyranny can motivate us to be vigilant!
Every nation is run by an elite minority.
If that minority is comprised of people who earned their membership in the elite through merit and achievement and operate with an ethos of public service, gratitude and humility, then things are likely to go well.
If that minority is comprised of people who got their position by ideological grift in spite of a lack or merit and operate with an air of entitlement, resentment and hubris, then it all goes into the crapper.
C.S. Lewis
Excellent, Jimmy.
In my long life I have learned that the primary movers for most politicians is their strong desire for power and recognition, with money being a strong third motivation. I have known a few career politicians, and as soon as they are elected there comes a personality change; instead of having conversations with them, one has lectures and pronouncements. They suddenly see themselves as superior the those who elected them. Then, too, there is the temptation to serve the lobbyists in exchange for “contributions.”
Everyone wants a piece of them, and unfortunately they comply. Not all of them, but most of them, I think.
And the worse they are, the more they caricature the other side such that they can claim (and even believe) they are preventing a great evil by retaining power. Biden has long used this mindset.
I’m late to this conversation and haven’t read the comments or even the entire OP, but I think President McKinley was dead wrong about this. Our Constitution was designed to prevent either type of tyranny. One is no better or worse than the other.
I think McKinley was saying you can’t ignore the minority, which people might tend to do, because, well, they’re the minority. They might be more odious because we underrate how much damage they might do, because they’re small.
Good point. Let’s say that we object to the tyranny of the elite of the minority. We don’t object to being led by the best of us. Instead, we refuse to follow the worst of us, even if represented by the best of the worst.
Going to need a Venn diagram here.
Kamala Harris has left the chat.