The minority in the institutions that represent democracy may represent the minority interests when they do not assume power, but also represent the majority when they assume power. The minority representation in parliaments or representative houses of democracy do not represent the minority interests for as long as they may represent these houses. The representatives of the majority in democratic politics perceive conflict with those who represent the minority, because the minority representation in the houses of representation are in conflict with the reality that they are representing the minority. The minority representation has no powers apart from their function of representation. Apart from Sir Winston Churchill who wanted the minority represented in his war cabinet during the second world war, I cannot recall the ruling power and the opposition in democracy together representing the government.
The minority representation in society may not want to represent the majority, but the minority representation in the houses of representation want to represent the majority later, through being vocal in representing the minority in the present. The apprehensions of professor Richard A. Falk stem from ideas arising from these state of affairs. I don't think the professor had thought about these state of affairs as worrying either. If the majority representation in government doesn't in reality represent the minority in society, then they must not seem to be against the representation of the minority in the elected institutions of democracy either. Has the professor ever opined that the minority in society seem to want conflict with the majority in democratic houses of representation because of the representation in such houses of the minority cause by politicians? What is his remedy to this state of affairs which is not good? The minority representation in society, as a result of the described situation, are seen as undesirable and disturbing to democracy, and the functioning of these minorities is seen to be a primary cause of this discord. Why have not teachers of political history and science come to represent the remedy of divisive politics in democracy?
