[Abe Froman]

That is an incorrect assesment of today's political climate. The safeguard the Founders had installed to prevent the "20% from forcing it's ideals on the other 80%" (that safeguard being the Constitution itself) is now routinely ignored and superceded. As a result, both the minority and the majority have the ability to tyrannize each other, depending on the issue at hand. Effectively, we are a popular democracy at this point. Only when principled Constitutional conservatives start being elected will those safeguards have a chance at being put back into place.

[Tamzee]

The safeguard the Founders had installed to prevent the "20% from forcing it's ideals on the other 80%" (that safeguard being the Constitution itself) is now routinely ignored and superceded.

Which safeguard is that, praytell? One worked fairly well in 2000 when it put Bush in the office despite Gore winning the popular vote.

We deal with the America we have NOW and work within the system we have NOW... the Founders would surely shoot us personally if we deliberately handed America over to a Democrat that wants to subjugate her once and for all to Europe and the U.N.