'Rand Paul has a very interesting view on American democracy: He's not a fan,' writes CillizzaCNN | Analysis
"The idea of democracy and majority rule really is what goes against our history and what the country stands for," the Kentucky Republican Senator told The New York Times in a story published Monday."The Jim Crow laws came out of democracy. That's what you get when a majority ignores the rights of others.
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! For starters, democracy is not solely about majority rule. It is about the right of citizens to have a free and fair say about the way in which the country they live in is governed. That usually takes the form of representative democracy, like what we have in the United States -- including one chamber where majority rules and one where any single Senator has the ability to slow or stop action on a particular policy, thanks to the filibuster.
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