Influential minority

Suppose that a minority of people has a strong influence on how the majority votes.

You could think either that:

• (A) This is a bad thing, because this influence presents a strong danger that the people are being fooled into voting for the interests of this minority group instead of their own interests. Without this influence, there is a greater chance that the interests of the majority will decide the laws, which is the ideal.
• (B) This is a good thing, because the majority of people do not know much about laws, so that their only hope of voting in good laws is by being influenced by a group of more knowledgeable people. Without this, they will vote ignorantly, and be governed by bad laws.
• (C) This makes no difference, because a minority can only be popular with the majority by saying what the majority already thinks.

It is probably inevitable that all of these sides will show up whenever there is an influential minority, according to whether someone likes them or not.