Mobocracy

Keep dreaming and start paying the maximum rate with no deductions because soon enough if you have any form of income you by virtue of the mobocracy will be the rich guy. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

It was also believed that an excess of democracy, commonly referred to as mobocracy, was a contributing factor and the Canadian system was thus deliberately made less democratic with institutions such as the appointed Senate and powers of the British appointed Governor-General, who until the 1931 Statute of Westminster was an official of the United Kingdom government. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Many of the framers of the Constitution feared what they called "mobocracy," a pejorative euphemism for democracy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The nationwide "Day Without Immigrants," in which a million or more invisible people in dozens of cities came out of the shadows to demand basic respect - sheer recognition, my God, as human beings - was anything but the "mobocracy" that Jim Gilchrist, one of the Minutemen founders, proclaimed to the media that it was. ❋ Unknown (2006)

An L.A. governed by the everyone-vote-on-everything "mobocracy" would be more dysfunctional than what we have now. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Some people speak as if the only alternative of autocracy was democracy, but the alternative maybe "mobocracy," which is ten times worse than democracy. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Let it be confessed that, despite Mr. Meredith's contempt for what he styled the "mobocracy," his first question concerned the meeting. ❋ Paul Leicester Ford (1883)

First and foremost, DerekE, this is not a "mobocracy" like Wikipedia, so it is never appropriate for an editor to change the additions made by an Administrator (exceptions being grammar and spelling corrections, etc.). ❋ Unknown (2010)

But the founders of the American republic were of course also almost all suspicious of "mobocracy," and the American state is carefully constructed to cripple direct democracy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The latest factional violence follows warnings from some observers that the country is in danger of slipping into a "mobocracy". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Now, what I will agree with is that there is a small, elite group of people who are trying to usurp our Republican form of government from us and turn it into a democracy which will lead to the tyranny of mobocracy which is THE natural progression of an unchecked democracy. ❋ Unknown (2009)