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> For me, the protection of rights is the actual goal of democracy, and voting just a necessary means to this end

Who decides what those “rights” are?



I am not an expert in this topic, but John Locke wrote a lot about it. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/2130435?jo...


This is silly. You've collapsed the term "democracy" down to mob rule and are whacking people over the head with your definition, which would get a D- in a political science class (which I would know, political science being one of the two college courses I ever took). I award you no points.




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