full quote is "Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.” it translates to: "Do not listen to those who say the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the tumult of the crowd is always close to madness."
@goldengateblond @RexChapman Ironic…this the first popular election that Trump has actually won a vote
@goldengateblond huh I’m pretty sure the original translates to “we held a Twitter poll, so”
@goldengateblond Leave it to an engineer to show the importance of the humanities.
@goldengateblond He was going to do this regardless of what any poll said; he just thinks an appeal to the crowd was great cover for it. Believe me when I say he'll stop invoking the holiness of public opinion the minute they vote for someone who wants to increase his tax rate.
@goldengateblond @tonilradtke He just saw it on a desk at Twitter.
@goldengateblond @cchukudebelu A notion affirmed by many a philosopher, to wit: Albert Camus: “The opinion of an assembly can be swayed by the eloquence and fanaticism of a faction.” Niccolò Machiavelli: “He who builds on the people, builds on the mud" (Preserving its context)
@goldengateblond Don't like "Our democracy", now? Oh, I know why. It is no longer "your" Democracy.