I listened to that last one..

It tells me how tenuous local government really is, and how usurpation of local government isn't really that terribly difficult.

Yeah, in that case it was Hasidic Jews. I'm shocked that there wasn't more anti-semetic actions, primarily because the Jews there were trying to turn the local educational system into one for them. But I digress; it would, and has been the same for Christian control as well.

So to discuss further; how does one prevent takeovers of simple majority trouncing the significant minority (technically 50% - 1) with onerous laws? How would one make a government that is resistant to takeovers, and still maintain democratic principles? Are those 2 ideas incompatible?