From David, in comments here:
May I humbly interject here the third world county corollary to Santayana’s Axiom as a partial argument against Horowitz's suggestion that we surrender the Constitution to mob rule?
“In a democracy, those who refuse to learn from history are in the majority and dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance.”
There are more than a few reasons that the Founders did NOT give us a democracy but a representative republic when they framed the Constitution.
Yes, yes, and YES. More of my own thoughts on democracy here.
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