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Democracy is not always populist. People have voted against direct self interest for the benefit for others for quite some time.

Good thing the US is a constitutional republic, then.

Almost like the founders knew that "mob rules" was a bad idea...

A lot of the framers (if you're going to be a pedant, use the right words) knew that "mob rules" had troublesome implications with respect to the humans they claimed ownership of.

Would you like to roll back civil rights because they are not fair, because it’s discriminatory and therefore unfair?