Thank you for the post @firepower! People use these words "democracy"and "democratic" as buzzwords that conjure up certain emotions. Few, including me, are referencing the dictionary meaning of those words. This caught my eye in your post: "Democracy without restraints, without human rights, without civil rights, without constitutional protections is a brutal system of oppression where once you get that sliver of majority, you can eradicate everybody else." It made me what to look up the dictionary meaning of the word "democracy". (1) a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state wow! so not all humans in the state are necessarily members of it. Everyone, or every eligible one, is part of the system of governance? Interesting. And then there was (2) "control of an organization or group by the majority of its members."That's where the majority rule comes in but it is not necessarily part of all systems that can be defined as democracies. Peace and love. upvoted and followed.