Democracy IS tyranny. The tyranny of the majority. A republic is what we should be talking about.
Well, true as far as that goes, but the thing is, in modern American parlance anyway, the word "democracy" is little other than shorthand for "constitutional democratic republic".
Nobody who advocates democracy is talking about pure democracy, after all. The notion that they are, is a straw man.
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