What We Deserve

Joseph de Maistre, a French Diplomat and Philosopher (1790), said, "every country has the government it deserves..."

Thomas Jefferson, years later (1800) said, "the government you elect is the government you deserve..."

H. L.  Mencken, American Journalist (1940) said, "people deserve the government they get..."

So...  what does this quote mean?

It means that every group of people, a nation of people let's say, is ultimately responsible for what happens to the nation IN TOTAL but not necessarily individually...

For example, when the PEOPLE elected Donald Trump, whatever he did the people deserved because they elected him to the office of the Presidency...  the same hold true now for Joe Biden...  whatever he does we deserve because we put him in power as well...

The problem with this logic is that if the vote is 51% to 49%, then WE THE PEOPLE did not really put anyone in power  because...   WE THE MAJORITY did...  therefore, almost 50% of the the people DO NOT DESERVE THE GOVERNMENT THEY GET...

DEMOCRACY is based upon a MAJORITY and may or may not reflect the WILL of all the people.