Patrick Vanhoucke<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/essence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>essence</span></a> of a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> is not that the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/majority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>majority</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/decides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decides</span></a>, but that the majority <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/protects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protects</span></a> the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/minority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minority</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.principlesofdemocracy.org/majority" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">principlesofdemocracy.org/majo</span><span class="invisible">rity</span></a></p>