Re: “Majority rule lacks the science,” Opinion, Dec. 23: Alan Preston makes a number of claims in this commentary. There is a lot to unpack. He states, “If a majority of voters decide that marijuana ...
Twenty-six states have the initiative petition option. On the service it sounds like a good old American idea of democracy at work. Good intentions pave the road to hell. Our founding fathers were ...
BOGOTÁ — We are living in extraordinary times, there’s no doubt about it. And a part of the exceptional nature of our times is that we are witnessing the end of democracy, or rather, its progressive ...
During the reign of the mob in our nation’s 1910s, ’20s and ’30s, a member of the mob would go to a legitimate businessman and offer a deal. The mob would provide protection from violence if the ...
Who runs the city — the mayor or the mob? That’s a legitimate question after rioters disrupted yet another police commission hearing on Tuesday. They shouted down LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell. And — once ...
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Letters to the editor: Protesting isn't 'mob rule.' It's what the United States was founded on
To the editor: By contributing writer Josh Hammer’s logic, Americans taking to the streets to protest injustice, a right sanctified by the 1st Amendment, is an example of “mob rule” (“Don’t let the ...
Furthermore, the “direct action” seen in our streets is often not democracy, but ochlocracy — mob rule. When a “peaceful protest” transitions to throwing rocks or doxxing agents’ home addresses, it ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Bozeman Pass zoning initiative is pure democracy in action - the majority rules-mob rule.
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