Posted on 05/11/2017 5:41:20 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
How do you know that Jason Johnson was peddling hyperbole? Because after making his melodramatic statement, he insisted, “that’s not hyperbole.” On CNN this morning, Johnson—of Univision-owned The Root—speaking of the Comey firing, declared “this is how democracy dies.” He said of the current situation that it is “no longer a functioning democracy,” adding the obligatory “this is a constitutional and sovereignty crisis.”
On the same panel, CNN’s Ron Brownstein portrayed President Trump as “a president who simply is systematically committed to delegitimizing and undermining any institution that he believes can check or challenge him.” Brownstein claimed that “the only question is how does the political system respond? Does it have the will to defend the checks and balances that have constrained the arbitrary exercise of presidential power?”
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When a guy insists that what he just said isn’t hyperbole, you know . . . it’s hyperbole.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Well, given that Democrats define democracy as “when I’m happy with the way things are going,” he’s probably right.
We are not a democracy.
We are a representative Republic.
“this is how democracy dies.”
Well...That’s perfect then, because America has never been a democracy.
Don’t these people ever learn any new lines? He might as well have said, “My body, my choice!” or “Give peace a chance!” or any other leftist blather. It would have made just as much sense.
CNN hypes things way too much and are getting repetitive. I remember when they were crying all the same things when Clinton sacked Sessions and all 93 US Attorneys.
Or not.
I wish.
The word “Democracy” should NEVER be used in conjunction with the Federal Government. I wish ‘democracy’ was painfully and permanently dead.
Democracy:
A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of “direct” expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic—negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether is be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy
Since Trump is taking so much BS heat, he should just go ahead and fire EVERYONE with past ties to Obama. Just get it over with instead of dragging it out. Also ban McShame and Lindsey Crackers from the White House.
“State socialism” is willing to act through state authority as it is at present organized. It proposes that all idea of a limitation of public authority by individual rights be put out of view, and that the State consider itself bound to stop only at what is unwise or futile in its universal superintendence alike of individual and of public interests. The thesis of the state socialist is that no line can be drawn between private and public affairs which the State may not cross at will; that omnipotence of legislation is the first postulate of all just political theory.If this is what is meant by “democracy”, and it always is, then it needs to die and never rise again.
Applied in a democratic state, such doctrine sounds radical, but not revolutionary. It is only an acceptance of the extremest logical conclusions deducible from democratic principles long ago received as respectable. For it is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. …
— Woodrow Wilson, 1887
When you are quoting Princess Leia’s Mom from the gayest Star Wars movie ever, it’s pretty clear you’re a drama queen.
The left peddles the opposite of truth.
I personally can’t stomach the morons who believe it.
Got into a heated argument yesterday and wouldn’t give an inch.
The morons were stunned I didn’t give a sht about their feelings or false beliefs.
Group thinkers are having a hard time these days.
Bill Clinton did the same damn thing and fired a FBI Director. No demorat pissed and moaned about that. I’m sick to my stomach of these idiot liberals. They can all kiss my a##.
Good, because we live in a representative republic not a democracy.
Where, exactly, are we on Jane Fonda and Ted Turner dying off?
My numbers in the pool are coming up.
Visualize Whirled Peas
That’s a long-time favorite of mine. I also like “Visualize Using Your Turn Signal.”
-PJ
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