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To Save the Republic, Destroy Our Democracy™
Have you thought about what Democrats and the Left mean by “Our Democracy”? I can tell you they don’t mean the government of, by, and for the people based on the founding principles of our republic: natural rights, equality before the law, and consent of the governed. They don’t even mean free and fair elections, obviously, given the manipulation and rigging of the last couple elections. Our Democracy™ has come to mean the electorate giving its stamp of approval to whatever the latest fad progressives in power in the bureaucracy, domineering corporations, and our institutions command — from men competing in women’s sports to vaccine and mask mania to the destruction of our cheap and efficient energy infrastructure to “save the planet.”
“Our Democracy” is the veneer of legitimacy given by so-called “elections” to fascism. To the totalizing demands for conformity and the subjection of one’s will and intellect to the oligarchs and their minions in the Deep State Leviathan. It’s tyranny by another name.
How do I know? Well, Glenn Ellmers lays it out pretty plainly in Hard Truths and Radical Possibilities:
- Elections—and therefore consent and popular sovereignty—are no longer meaningful.
- The idea that the founders’ institutional arrangements still obtain is a nostalgic fiction today—especially the idea of checks and balances based on federalism and the separation of powers.
- Political competence, in the traditional sense, is becoming irrelevant.
- The moral habits of self-government have been crippled.
- By carrying on with retail politics and accepting the current situation as normal, people on the Right are now legitimizing and strengthening their enemies.
But, I was coming to the conclusion before I’d even read his excellent piece. Apart from the obvious multi-tiered application of the law (see antifa/BLM versus J6 protestors), there is the unimpeachable Joe Biden. It’s not that he isn’t impeachment-and-removal-worthy. He’s plainly one of the most corrupt and vile presidents the country has ever “elected.” It’s that he can denigrate the people he supposedly serves as president without (much) criticism or consequence.
We’re all morons, right @POTUS? No one ever had business class in middle school. https://t.co/LYEzxoDzTT
— Brad Ziegler (@BradZiegler) November 29, 2022
This is the behavior of a tyrant, and tyrants are notoriously hard to depose. He has the immense power of the autocracy behind him, under the guise of “Our Democracy.”
In addition to the must-read Ellmers article, I recommend Dennis Prager’s post, The Question Fools Don’t Ask. The question is, “what is the price?” Republicans who prefer the status quo aren’t small-r republicans at all. They’re legitimating “Our Democracy” — our tyranny — and I would suggest they don’t contemplate the price the people are currently paying (the ruination of young people’s lives, for example) or are likely to pay in the future as our Orwellian nightmare intrudes further into our woke lives. Or, if they do, they’re unwilling to pay it.
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Those who attack our protests of corrupt elections are supporting “democracy,” not our republican form of government. Nor are they fighting for conservatism. The reject a small mob to support nationalized mob rule.
Given that “Elections—and therefore consent and popular sovereignty—are no longer meaningful” doesn’t it follow that, by participating, one is legitimizing an illegitimate system? Places like North Korea and the former Soviet Union had meaningless elections to give their regimes a patina of legitimacy.
Imagine, for a moment, how it would make the regime look if turnout dropped to 30%. The media would try to cover it up but word would leak out.
As I look at your 6-point list, I have to acknowledge their truth. There’s no getting around that. And it is possible to give multiple examples for each one. And yet the remedy for them seems so obscure, so distant, maybe impossible. It’s a very discouraging time, WC.
The language is chosen to predispose the citizenry to support the elimination of the electoral college.
They’re Glenn Elmer’s points, but I agree with him 100 percent.
What we need right now is a eucatastrophe.
Leftists definitely mean “communism”, when they say “democracy”.
So do the establishment Republicans in essence. Looking at you Turtle.
We know exactly what they mean.
“Accuse your opponent of that which you yourself are guilty.” — Goebbels
And they thought this one would play well, so they put it at the top of their list of talking points, because…
“A lie repeated enough becomes the truth.” — Lenin
This is their standard operating procedure. They do it repeatedly. And with the dems, the accusations tend to have a weirdly specific level of detail.
If you know this, then you know that it’s a big freaking error to take the words at face value.
Oh, indeed.
When the Right is in power “Our” means all of America’s; We need to work together.
When the left is in power “Our” means theirs; We are the enemy.
If you liked Elmer’s article, listen to Steve Hayward interview him on a Powerline podcast.
Great Post.
Great List,
Now will we do something about it?
If we manage to restore our Constitutional Republic do we then proceed to charge and try a large number of people with crimes against the Republic? I’m trying to figure out how anything like what we think should be done in the way of recovery can happen without a significant level of violence. Can it?
Socialism. You can vote yourself in, but …
Perhaps a bit too extreme, but what if each person before they voted were to take a simple quiz? In this quiz, you would have to be able to write a couple of sentences, not grammatically correct. But in your own words describe why you are voting as a conservative, or as a progressive/liberal? If you don’t know why you vote the way you do, then you don’t get to vote this time. You can take the time between elections to consider these things and draw some meaningful conclusion. Probably not doable, but these thoughts have been pondered by me, for many years.
I think I can answer why people vote liberal. Because liberals are for the little guy (to quote my FDR Democrat Catholic Greatest Generation parents). Because Democrats promise to alleviate your suffering even if it’s caused by your poor life choices. People just feel better about themselves by spending other people’s money on those in need. To liberals, this is the purpose of government.
That’s understanding the platform of each political party and their candidate.
But the Progressive Democrats approach that the same way civics and history are done in public education. The presentation is a lie.
The history of literacy tests for voting in the U.S. might give some ideas of the obstacles you would need to overcome.