"Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows"

[Frustration]

And popular opinion doesn't matter at all it's called Tyrany and I trust the mob before I trust a tyrant because at the end of the day the mob can be satisfied. Members of the mob are for the most part only violent when desperate and turned against each other by tyrants, but tyrants are never satiated.

Are you a Canadian? Because I would expect an American to know that the Executive and Legislative branches are the ones that are supposed to be responsive to popular opinion, and the Judicial branch was intended to provide a bulwark against it.

[Frustration]

With all due respect, that more aptly describes democracy. Or perhaps a constitutional democracy to be a bit more specific.

No, it doesn't. At least part of this argument is due to your having wild and crazy ideas about how democracies are supposed to function. Even direct democracies don't work that way.

Any time you start denigrating the intelligence of the people you should remind yourself that you're one of them.

That is precisely what I am not.

[Draco Dracul]

And popular opinion doesn't matter at all it's called Tyrany and I trust the mob before I trust a tyrant because at the end of the day the mob can be satisfied. Members of the mob are for the most part only violent when desperate and turned against each other by tyrants, but tyrants are never satiated.

Are you a Canadian? Because I would expect an American to know that the Executive and Legislative branches are the ones that are supposed to be responsive to popular opinion, and the Judicial branch was intended to provide a bulwark against it.

One can know how a system works and recognize that it's a shit system.
You are also wrong, neither the Legislative Branch nor the Executive branch are designed to be responsive to popular opinion. The senate explicitly advantages small states, the districting system of the house means that a party gets to pick it's own constituency meaning they can have little of the popular support, and the electoral college is a specific bulwark against popular opinion. The end result of building bulwarks against popular opinion is that no part of the government is responsive to it. It's a bad system that lead us into one Civil War and is poised to plunge us into another.

That is precisely what I am not.

You're not one of the people, than what are you?

[Frustration]

You are also wrong, neither the Legislative Branch nor the Executive branch are designed to be responsive to popular opinion.

We elect the Legislative branch, and significant parts of the Executive branch. Their terms of service are limited, requiring frequent turnover, and elections are mandated.

If you're an American, you must have failed your civics course.

[pilight]

Any time you start denigrating the intelligence of the people you should remind yourself that you're one of them.

That is precisely what I am not.

You're not a person? That explains a lot.

[Frustration]

You're not one of the people, than what are you?

An aristocrat.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

With all due respect, that more aptly describes democracy. Or perhaps a constitutional democracy to be a bit more specific.

No, it doesn't. At least part of this argument is due to your having wild and crazy ideas about how democracies are supposed to function. Even direct democracies don't work that way.

You're loading things.

It's going to have an inevitable impact on policy outcome.

It's only one discrete aspect of a republic though.

[McAvoy]

Any time you start denigrating the intelligence of the people you should remind yourself that you're one of them.

That is precisely what I am not.

So you denigrating the intelligence of people is just a thing for you?

[hammerofglass]

He's a troll, what were you expecting?

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

I'm too tired to argue with you.

Interracial marriage or my thoughts that abortion is more about personal beliefs than men wanting to control bodies?

The latter.