[duairc]

> We have a democracy, and obviously only a minority consider this to be an issue of concern. > > If you have a problem with it, stand for election.

There must be a name for this kind of fallacy.

[collyw]

I call it "faith in democracy", as there is no evidence of it happening in any modern "democracy". Just got to believe....

[pdkl95]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

[edanm]

Is it really a fallacy?

Part of democracy is accepting that you don't necessarily agree with everyone about everything, and you have to compromise.

[ionised]

When you have secret laws that protect secret proceedings or as we actually have now, agencies that operate in a legal black hole and are completely unaccountable then yes, the idea that this is somehow a democracy is comical.

[eevilspock]

Say you were born in 1850, but had the understanding about race and slavery that you do now. Slavery makes you angry (I'm assuming here) and you make an impassioned post about the evils of slavery. In reply you get, "We have a democracy, and obviously only a minority consider this to be an issue of concern."

Is it "sad that it makes you 'angry' that some people simply disagree with you"? Is it ok to dismiss your anger because you don't "stand for election"?