America does not guarantee you the right to hold onto everything you value. America gives you the right to live in a country where the majority decides the direction. If the majority holds different values, then your (or my) values may not be reflected. Then your recourse is not violence - it is to do the work that is needed to convince a majority that your values SHOULD be the ones reflected in our nation. The fact that someone finds themself in an ideological minority is not a failure of representative democracy or our system, it is a failure of that ideology and it's proponents to win approval.
Well if only that were true.
The majority are being plagued by a tyranny of progressive policies that only a small percentage support.
That is so not true. The top three national priorities today are domestic issues. Asked the question even two years ago, and we would have seen Iraq, War on Terror, and maybe the economy as #3. The only difference is how to pay for all the problems affecting us at the social level, but the "progressive" priorities are the same.
Problems and Priorities
I think that the Concerns of the Oligarchy are Global. The biggest threat to that is the spread of uprising. The threat of the week, keeps us occupied. Economic, Health, Pandemic, Terrorist, Who's getting written off of "Entourage", The war on fun food.