Life by Janet Elliott Brown

When in high school, we had debates. We were encouraged to debate current issues, like the Viet Nam war or women's rights. On FB, many people think that talking about important issues is a no-no. If one does that, they are looked at as dissidents. Yes, dissidents. How does tyranny begin? Subtly. With fear and intimidation tactics. 

I will not just sit idly by, going along with laws being made that actually hurt 75% of the people in our country. 

So many people have banned themselves from participating in any discussion that is controversial - so they can remain politically and socially correct so as not to offend anyone. Let's not ruffle feathers, right.

Is that the least bit offensive to anyone besides me?  I am not an overly political person, but it is my responsibility as an American to speak up, to stand up, to question things and to talk about them. I want to apologize to anyone that takes offense at this post, in advance.

I wondered if more of our tax money each year is spent on welfare or big business. So, of course, I googled it. This is an older article, but it supports my theory. Why are folks mad at the people "stealing" their tax money; "illegal aliens" or those on food stamps, medicare, etc., instead of being mad about big business welfare? Much more of "their" tax dollars go into the billionaire and trillionaire peoples' pockets. Big businesses are made up of people lining their own pockets with the taxes paid in by all of us.

I have actually had people say such hateful, cruel things about the poor, and those in need, and much worse and more selfish things than one could imagine. People just need to "work as hard as THEY do so nobody uses (steals) the taxes they pay. Americans going hungry are not their problem. Kids without food, shoes and school books, women/girls that need planned parenthood, etc., are using their money. Those in need of help should save themselves. That's what I have been told several times by people that I love very much. 

Some of my friends, those with the most influence, have personally decided to NOT stand up or speak up, and that is sad for all of us.

Ding! Ding! Ding! The floor is now open for debate (not name-calling or fighting). Your thoughts, please?

So, here is my topic for debate:

From Wikipedia:  Tyranny of the majority (or tyranny of the masses) refers to an inherent weakness of direct democracy and majority rule in which the majority of an electorate can place its own interests above, and at the expense of, those in the minority. This results in oppression of minority groups comparable to that of a tyrantor despot.^[1]

Potentially, through tyranny of the majority, a disliked or unfavored ethnic, religious, political, social, or racial group may be deliberately targeted for oppression by the majority element acting through the democratic process.^[2]

American founding father Alexander Hamiltonwriting to Jefferson from the Constitutional Convention argued the same fears regarding the use of pure direct democracy by the majority to elect a demagogue who, rather than work for the benefit of all citizens, set out to either harm those in the minority or work only for those of the upper echelon. The Electoral College mechanism present in the indirect United States presidential electionsystem, and the phenomenon of faithless electors allowed for within it, was, in part, deliberately created as a safety measure not only to prevent such a scenario, but also to prevent the use of democracy to overthrow democracy for an authoritarian, dictatorial or other system of oppressive government.^[3] As articulated by Hamilton, one reason the Electoral College was created was so "that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications".