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By the way if you're concerned about mob rule in any way shape or form you are an authoritarian.
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Mob rule only exists in relation to authority. The people, denied democratic means to express their will, band together in a mob to demand change. The mob is spontaneous, impossible to control, and dangerous, but it would not exist in a legitimate democracy.
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"But what about the KKK and lynching? Wasn't that mob rule?" Oh you mean those things the state tacitly endorsed for decades?
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This goes for people on the left and right. If you don't believe that people can govern themselves, I don't care what you call yourself but you don't share my politics