The Democratic Process can be tyranny too....

Sorry, no von Mises yet. But.....

For all of you out there who used to think that the democratic process safeguarded our rights, I have news... It dosen't. and to prove it, I have Anceint Athens, and modern Cherokees.

"OKLAHOMA CITY - The Cherokee Nation vote to revoke the citizenship of the descendants of people the Cherokee once owned as slaves was a blow to people who have relied on tribal benefits. " http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17442676/

Note: The Cherokee Nation voted to expel the decendants of freed blacks. This means that a majority of Cherokees have decided that decendants of black slaves their ancestors used to own are not good enough/ pure enough, to be part of the 'Nation'. Also, it is extreamly possible that some of these newly outcast decendants of black slaves could be more Cherokee percentagewise than those who claim Cherokee ancestry and are mostly Caucasian. This means that simply on racial lines, the Cherokees have cut some people out of rights and benefits, through a democratic process. (I will not go into whether those rights assigned to them by our American law are actually just) It is apparent, however, that the democratic process cannot safeguard our Liberty. All it takes to destry this fragile thing we used to have is a deluded majority. that is, in a democratic system. which is why our goverment was never meant to be a pure democracy. it was meant to nearly have an aristorcracy built in, to protect the masses from being deluded into giving up their own rights. we all know, it dosent just end after some people have been voted to no longer be their race (somthing one would think was not even in the ken of the law), it affects everything.

As to Athens. What does Thucididies give as a major role in their loss of the pelpeneseian war? Their Democratic process made them compleatly schizophrenic in their forgein relations and with their colonies. this led to them not being able to concentrate on beating the spartains, they were too busy running on some dumb mission propunded by the most eloquent speakers, and supported by the dumbest of the population. this is what happens to a pure democracy, it inevatable leads to either destruction, as in Athens, or to the rule of the few and privilidged. How? you ask.... very simple. Each and every time the masses are deluded into giving up their rights, or precluding some class, the class of people able and willing to affect the government decreases, until, poof, now the masses might as well not even bother to vote.