When majority rule descends into mob justice, how does one overthrow the tyrant?
This is a free country. Russia is now a free country. China is on the way to being a free country. Things are so free in Sweden as to make it a libertarians’ paradise. Canada has recently codified in law certain practices which render our neighbors to the north a veritable libertines’ paradise. What do these and so many countries around the world have in common bringing them such wonderful freedoms? Democracy! And where there is no democracy, there is Free Trade! Even China now recognizes private property! The Age of Aquarius must be just around the corner! Kings quickly become tyrants, we are told. Aristocracy is by definition unjust, it is preached. And Heaven help the nation afflicted with a theocracy governed by priests! None but the citizen has the right to rule. Democracy, of the people, by the people, for the people, must reign. It is the common man wherein wisdom truly resides. The sagacity of the commonfolk is unsurpassed by academe. If one seeks common sense, one should look