[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

What you describe is tyranny. There are no elites that decides what opinions everyone should have. Be thankful for that. Just use your first amendment rights to persuade all voters to think like conservatives. That is the way a constitutional republic functions.

[miss marmelstein]

...or just deny women the vote.

[fr_freak]

What you describe is tyranny.

Ha - so you're under the impression that what we had in this country before the early 1900s was tyranny? The right to vote was limited because the Founders knew that letting irresponsible, incompetent, or otherwise unreasonable people vote would LEAD to tyranny immediately, where people would vote for whomever promises them the most free stuff, necessarily taken out of the pockets of their neighbors. Letting unproductive men vote was not allowed, and letting women vote was not allowed because women instinctively expect to be taken care of, and will tolerate being controlled in order to achieve that. Thus, they tend to support a powerful government full of freebies for women.

[grey_whiskers]

What you describe is tyranny. There are no elites that decides what opinions everyone should have. Be thankful for that. Just use your first amendment rights to persuade all voters to think like conservatives. That is the way a constitutional republic functions.

You are in fact incorrect: the country was originally set up so that only property owners could vote; to avoid the whole (often attributed to deTocqueville among others) "largesse from the public Treasury" thing.