On any specific issue that’s right, but it is lot the case at the system level.

The reason why is that even if you are on the winning side sometimes, a lot of factors ensure that you’ll be on the 49% side every now and then. And then it is in your interest that your rights are defended. This is not some new or particularly deep insight. It is the basis of political liberalism.

Very true if 51% is somehow disconnected/shielded from the 49% and power basically never changes sides.

But it is only technically correct, if tyrants regularly agree to cede the power to new tyrant without bloodshed or even a tantrum.

Exactly