What an exquisitely misleading headline. Allow me to translate it into something resembling reality: a majority of people want a shiny new policy—so long as someone else foots the bill. That’s the real story. I’d wager this slim majority cheering from the sidelines isn’t composed of the people who actually keep the country functioning. They’re probably not the ones carrying the tax burden or dragging themselves to work every day to keep the lights on for everyone else. Just a hunch, but I doubt I’m far off.
And here we land at the rotten core: the tyranny of democracy. Because democracy isn’t “the will of the people”—it’s the will of whoever can whip up a large enough crowd with cheap promises and emotional bribes. Once that crowd is assembled, they can ram through almost anything while the minority stands there, exposed to the grinding machinery of majority desire.Let’s not romanticize it. Some of the worst atrocities in human history weren’t engineered by lone tyrants—they were carried out with the enthusiastic backing of majorities. Let that uncomfortable truth rattle around in your head for a moment. The mob doesn’t need a throne to play king.