Different states have state-level protections that mitigate the tyranny of the majority -- and even where they don't have much you have the option of moving to a better state.So every election ever held in the country is nothing other than tyranny?
Democracy is ugly...and sometimes ugly bills get passed.
Tell us how the EC prevented racial segregation in the early days of the United States.
And the always accusatory tone is unnecessary.
"Democracy" is not what we have, nor what our government was designed to be -- the founding fathers saw democracy as no different from mob rule. What we have is a representative republic that is supposed to reflect the views of all, even those whose views are in the minority.
In the "early days of the republic" racial segregation was not considered federal matter -- it wouldn't become one until after the passage of the 13th Amendment (1867). The EC did protect the interests of those who held a minority opinion, however, such as protecting the minority view of slave-holding states. Or, if you want a more morally positive example, it protected the minority view that there was a need to fund the U.S. Navy (inland states didn't want to pay for a standing Navy).