Why's that tyranny instead of just the way the cookie crumbles in a simple majority vote scenario? Call me crazy, but I'd prefer a "tyranny of the majority" to a real tyranny, you know, the kind that comes with a tyrant.
Also, is it a tyranny of the majority if it's 51%, but not if it's, say, 75%? Is a 49% minority more worthy of whatever protection a bill rider would hypothetically provide than a 25% minority? And if I'm in that much of a minority perspective, how do I get a bill rider to protect me? Because I'm not going to have gotten anybody into office to draft bills or vote on them, who is actually going to be worried about it.
Mind you, I still can't wait to get the hell out of California and stop being anally raped by the tyranny of the reactionary PC dilettantes, but then those do appear to actually *be* a majority here, so, fine, whatever. I'm with rone on seeing bill riders as sneaky shit where no further sneaky shit is called for. Instead of waking up and finding out a provision to guarantee anal raping had been snuck in, I would prefer to actually be on the losing side of a 51-49 vote that explicitly stated its intent was anally raping me and my pals.
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Also, is it a tyranny of the majority if it's 51%, but not if it's, say, 75%? Is a 49% minority more worthy of whatever protection a bill rider would hypothetically provide than a 25% minority? And if I'm in that much of a minority perspective, how do I get a bill rider to protect me? Because I'm not going to have gotten anybody into office to draft bills or vote on them, who is actually going to be worried about it.
Mind you, I still can't wait to get the hell out of California and stop being anally raped by the tyranny of the reactionary PC dilettantes, but then those do appear to actually *be* a majority here, so, fine, whatever. I'm with rone on seeing bill riders as sneaky shit where no further sneaky shit is called for. Instead of waking up and finding out a provision to guarantee anal raping had been snuck in, I would prefer to actually be on the losing side of a 51-49 vote that explicitly stated its intent was anally raping me and my pals.