Perhaps, but I see a more complicated and divisive dynamic at play. The minorities to which you refer may include any number of groups to whom "rights" have been granted. Of course, we know there is no such thing as a group right; there is only an individual right to life from which the others rights must follow. These are the rights to liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. Liberty because man's means of survival is his mind, which depends on free thought. Property because man has specific needs to fulfill in order to survive; he cannot survive without material sustenance. The pursuit of happiness because happiness should be the goal directed action of his life. Do not that happiness is not guaranteed because existence precedes consciousness. Now, if we accept these rights, then minimum wage, welfare, government medical care, etc. should all be abolished. In this case, the right of the individual is upheld against the rights of any group of would-be looters.

Or a consensus, or being part of a club, or territory, or an oath. They are the result of man's nature.

Salty Dog, honestly, tell me what we could have done to stop it. I along with probably millions of others was marching in the streets, attending meetings, doing everything I could to stop Obamacare. Our efforts meant nothing. I don't know of anything else I could have done!