Why is it that the same people who reject democracy as mob rule seem to like mob rule when it lets them vote away the rights of others?

A few billionaires own the means of production that everyone depends on. Nobody else has much choice how they'll provide for their own welfare.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.