The nationwide illegal-alien rallies have been touted by the contemptible Ted Kennedy as the victory of democracy. “The country has spoken, and today the Senate listened,” Kennedy grandiosely crowed (emphasis added).
What makes the apparently no-longer-soused Senator assert that the in-your-face anti-American specter sweeping the nation—if anything more French than American—represents the majority?
What we are seeing unfold are special-interest politics, likened by Loren E. Lomasky to “Hobbes’s war of all against all, albeit by democratic means.”
The winner in an election is certainly not the fictitious entity referred to as “The People,” but rather the representatives of the majority. Do these elected representatives at least carry out the will of the majority? Hell no! The majority has little say in the business of governance; they’ve merely elected politicians who’ve been awarded carte blanche to do as they please.
The tyranny exercised by well-entrenched minorities over unorganized majorities,” in Lomasky’s words, now that’s the democratic reality Kennedy is exulting.
Immigration Rallies: Hobbesian Democracy in Action
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