"Ironically, though, it is our slouching slide toward full democracy that has made this phenomenon possible."
I'm not sure I follow. A "full democracy" would enable the tryanny of the MAJORITY, would it not?
So it would seem, but the problem is the means by which we slouch. It is the ill-defined and subjective doctrine of "fairness" that drives a scoiety's slide toward democracy. The inevitable consequence of the doctrine is the tyranny of minorities and the ultimate destruction of democracy. Hayek and others have written at length on the self-destructive nature of democracy.
Sorry, I kind of pulled this off-topic, though, didn't I?