On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:50:27 -0500, Richard
wrote:

I guess I really am a throwback to the old days.
Or maybe I was wrong back then.

I always thought that the minority was supposed to be protected from
the majority. Foolish idea, huh?

It seem like you are saying that it's the other way around now.

Majority rules.

So how does an election of less than a majority of the eligible voters work?

To my simple mind that shows no confidence in the candidates offered.

So when one of those candidates is elected in such circumstances, how
is that not a rigged game?

When you live in a Constitutional Republic...there is no "Democracy"
as you imply.

Gunner

"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child,
miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied,
demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless.
Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."
PJ O'Rourke