The Dangers of Majority Rule   In a discussion recently, the subject of ‘majority rule’ was brought up to justify people’s perspective on which laws are enacted.  Some claim that there is nothing wrong with voting with the majority yet they forgot to mention that the majority is NOT always right nor is it always implementing the correct laws.   Basically all democracies are based upon a majority rule concept, the party or person with the most popular votes wins.  So one would think, yet in America, who trumpets the ‘one man, one vote’ ideal, it is found that the popular vote is actually voting for the members of the electoral college, who in turn are free to cast their votes for whomever they wish (Simply put, the people of the United States do not vote for the President- http://hubpages.com/hub/Electoral_College)   The obvious danger of a ‘majority rule’ mentality is the ‘mob rule effect’ or action by reaction or emotion, most commonly employed as vigilantism and is used where the rule of law in place is ignored because someone disagrees with it and stirs up a crowd to achieve one’s misguided desires.   A lesser known danger and one more widely accepted are the rule changes.  Here one can over-ride their governmental constitution to implement new rules which offer a wider latitude of legal and investigative action (http://action.aclu.org/reformthepatriotact/facts.html)  or they can determine where, when and to whom the constitution applies (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/antebellum/landmark_barron.html) .  What good is a rule of law if it does NOT apply to everyone?  That is purely unjust and wrong.   Finally, a grave danger that comes from the majority rule mentality is that certain people can gain power through legitimate and legal means for evil purposes.  We saw it happen in Germany with Hitler, in Italy previously with Mussolini and we continue to see it take place today. These people can and do use intimidation, fear, threats to make sure their party is provided with enough seats to usurp authority and take over the nation (http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch12.htm , http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/nsdap.html) .   The ‘majority rule’ system is very vulnerable, easy to manipulate and corrupt and allows for injustice, hatred, intolerance, greed, et al, to raise their ugly heads and thwart any attempt to have a good and decent society for all people.  Lincoln tried to have the right society for America but his rule was short lived and his work uprooted though people love to quote his famous words ‘Government for the people, by the people of the people’ but when push comes to shove, they are rarely followed.   People do not want to have good government, they do not want to have justice (unless it is for themselves) they do not want things to be fair, and so on. If they did, they would look to God to rule their lands, as His ways are just, fair, there is no mob mentality, vigilantism, there are no rule changes, nor exceptions.  His rules apply to all and evil people cannot corrupt nor manipulate His system for their own evil ways.   Under God’s ways right and wrong are not distorted but are clearly defined so everyone knows what is the correct thing to do.  People are also limited in that they cannot apply their own definitions to force others, who exercise their freedom of choice, to do what one wants.   There are far more advantages under God’s ways that cannot be listed. Unfortunately, people want the power, they want their ways implemented, they want the control and say, which is why we get the Hitler’s, the Stalin’s, the Bush’s, and so on.  People desire the wrong things and in time they will discover that majority rule is not the ideal but very destructive, even with the best of intentions.