Originally Posted by Charlatan

Here is what you wrote:


Those in elected office *are* doing what they were elected to do. The Democrats campaigned on a platform of health care reform. The Republicans did not.

Once in power, the Democrats did exactly what they said they would do and worked to bring about the reform. The Republican electeded officials worked to stop it.

BOTH sides worked to serve the interests of their electorate by taking the appropriate actions upon which they ran for office.

To be clear: They do not appear to have forgotten for whom they are working. They are enacting the will of the people who elected them.




This is *not* in any way the same as a tyranny of the majority. Not even close.

If we were to follow your logic, it could be argued that if there were a sizable enough minority who didn't want to pay taxes, take out car insurance, ban automatic weapons, have sex with children, etc. We should make allowances for them *or* strike down the existing laws (Constitutional or otherwise) and let it happen.

For you to equate Health Care reform to equal rights for homosexuals, women, etc. is to miss the point of equal rights entirely.