Strictly speaking, it's rule of the people, but the people, when uninformed, can make choices that allow democracy to mutate into a form of mob rule, which is why I am not all happy with the whole progressive schtick many people have. Just saying a "but" is a good way to get lynched, even if your grievances are completely logical with no political bias.
We just had a series of Women's Marches here in Spain protesting a political party that wants to "de-gender" the violence laws, as we're the only country were men and women get different sentences for identical offenses. The Constitutional Tribunal has decided this somehow doesn't violate the constitution's primeval protection for equality since men and women are not equal.
And not a single soul has bothered doing an alternate approach of this: toughening the nominal laws so both end up being treated equally, mostly because the parties are too busy fighting for votes from MGTOWS/incels and left wing caucuses are essentially in the pocket of feminist organizations that essentially raid the public funds to fuel radical feminism/feminazis and misandry.
Essentially, people don't want to concede a single word because they believe our world runs in black and white morality, even though we all know there couldn't be a bigger farce to date.
Sorry for the gender war rubbish, but it's the only example I have off the top of my head about the insane belief that A being right puts B in the wrong spot even though it's very reasonable to take both answers as truthful, albeit referring to different situations.
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Bloody murder, no! I supported him so Hillary would get the message and pursue her true calling as activist, not because we genuinely liked everything he said (though we all know it's very hard to go wrong with tax cuts, so he had that going for himself).
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Maybe if our rulers were chosen by their capabilities and not in a rigged, bribe centered popularity contest, we would have good leaders. Sadly, an actual meritocracy would be impossible unless we had geniuses reviewing the "governance scores" of politicians and reviewing their job applications to determine the best choice for king, director, president, prime minister, premier or another head of state.
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Puerto Rico Espanol!