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The voters are not one person. Sadly democracy ends up being the fascism of the many.



It sounds like you don't understand what "fascism" is, because this statement is plainly wrong.

The common statement is that "democracy is tyranny of the majority*, which is basically true IMO. Tyranny is not synonymous with fascism, though fascism can certainly be a form of tyranny.

Anyway, it doesn't matter if the voters aren't one person; they're a collective, and collectively they generally approve whatever government they're living under, or else they wouldn't have elected it, or allowed it to continue to rule them. If they elected it, they're getting what they voted for and what they deserve. If they didn't elect it, but allow it to rule them anyway, they're still getting what they deserve (though I'd make an exception for a small country being forcibly occupied by a much larger and more powerful country).




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