The Minority Rules...

When I was a kid I learned a simple and basic idea that helped my friends and I decide on whether or not we were going to play football or basketball and that idea was that...The Majority Rules. This basic concept worked well for us and even though it always left a few people doing something they really didn't want to do; most of us were happy!

Today in our country we are using a different strategy in order to decide what rules and regulations are implemented. The concept that is being used by our country is the idea that...The Minority Rules. This concept isn't as smooth working as the above idea and while this new concept leaves a few people really happy; most people are unhappy!

The majority of people in this country are against same sex marriage; however, there are many states that are creating laws that allow same sex couples to get married even though the majority of people in these states are against same gender marriages. The problem we have here is that there are a few judges out there that believe that they know best for this country and that their beliefs should be imposed on the majority that doesn't share them. This leaves all the people that are for same gender marriages in these states happy, but the majority of people that are against them happening are just left feeling annoyed and start to believe that Democracy doesn't work. This is just one example of where the minority is allowed to have a louder voice than the majority and where the minority is given their way.

I personally believe in Democracy and I believe that we have the best form of government possible (considering the nature of man), but there are times when I watch this country operate that I understand why many people don't. In our country we have laws going into effect that oppose the views of the majority of citizens, we have representatives and senators going against their constituents and voting on things based solely on their own personal beliefs, and we have judges interpreting and reinterpreting laws based solely on their own loose interpretations of the laws (even if they don't conform with views of the society they affect). I can see (though I don't agree) why voting numbers continually decline. People start to lose faith in a system that doesn't work for the majority of people in that system.

-G-