democracy

     People who have been raised in what was once considered a "standard" American fashion ought to have a fair "grounding" in democratic processes.  Growing up with at least some brothers and sisters,  parents who taught them to take turns, neighborhood kids who decided as a group what to play, and school "group" experience, the idea of decisions made by a majority should be familiar.
     The offspring of a particular group of parents have a difficult time with the concept of democracy. Their parents taught them to take turns, of a kind, but they took turns being the king or queen of the household for a day--everyone had to do everything their way. Another day someone else had a turn to be king or queen of the house. These people have no experience with group decision-making or shared power. The only experience they have of going along with someone else's decisions is based on the idea that they will have a turn at "commanding". Without this "turn-taking", they resist being subject to anyone else's will--even if anyone else means everyone else.

Suggestion--we identify and re-educate these people.