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discntnt_irny_srcsm

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2. What Lord Acton said:

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Feb 4, 2026, 10:26 AM

21 hrs ago

"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections."

Does what Acton said over a century ago sound like November of 2024 to anyone?

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