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Originally Posted by Jamroll
You make a good point, bro, and I know in the US its a two-horse race (between Democrats and Republicans) but it can be even less than that. It's whatever the largest percentage vote. So say there are 5 candidates and they each get 19% of the vote except one who gets 24%, then he wins, even though he only got 24%. So 24% decide how the other 76% live. And if there are more candidates, then the percentages can be even lower! That is democracy.
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I haven't heard of any existing democracy that works like that...
You still need to form a majority government, and the less votes you have, the less power you have to act. And typically systems that run on proportional representation go through leaders like laundry (i.e. Israel). And then of course what MuslimZ mentioned, rights for the minority.
How you seem to picture it really isn't how it works.