Conservative Kristallnacht

[ManusJustus]

rocketpig said:

Rath said:
Manus is right about overthrowing a democratic government. The government in power is the government elected by the people. Why? Because you're overthrowing a majority government for a minority ideal - otherwise you'd be able to vote in the government that you want.

Essentially you would become the tyrants ruling the majority which I'm fairly sure isn't what the writers of your constitution had in mind - I think they were more concerned with overthrowing tyrants.

That is not entirely true. There are plenty of examples of a majority-ruled government oppressing the minority so severely that drastic measures must be taken, the extreme form being a coup. You don't even have to look far to see examples of it (eg. slavery in the US).

There are plenty of reasons to overthrow a Democracy, just less reasons than most other forms of government.

Modern democracies allow political representation for almost all individuals and only deny reperesentation for justifiable reasons.  In the USA, age limit and felony record are taken into consideration for allowing people to vote, and even felony record is in dispute in the US.

Slavery is not an example of a of democracy as part of the population is unjustifiablely removed from the voting process.  For example, the Confederate states of America was just as democratic as the Soviet Union, the CSA only allowing white males to vote and the Soviet Union only allowing communist party members to vote, thus an overthrow of these government types by the majority is justifiable.