Posted on 05/21/2019 8:07:00 AM PDT by DFG
Government accountability is an idea that draws bipartisan support: calls for more transparency and oversight of politicians and bureaucracies go over well with voters. But what about oversight of the people who put them in office? Democracies give power to the people — does anyone hold the people responsible for this power?
Not really, and that has long been a problem. Since its beginning in ancient Greece, democracy has faced a crisis of legitimacy when the people have not been held accountable for their exercise of sovereignty, allowing elites to dismiss democracy as mob rule. Today, defending our democracy begins with taking responsibility for votes cast at the ballot box each year.
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Good that puts him on a official domestic terrorist list. We are going to go after these turds very soon.
This guy thinks legislators should be locked up for introducing legislation he doesn’t like. Typical leftist.
yep
They’re not going to like losing the upcoming civil conflict either, but life ain’t supposed to be fair
That would make for a good tagline! ;)
It was just created by a leftist douchebag who threw a bunch of high-falutin’ words into a blender and strung them together.
I had to laugh...I can’t read any scrap of Leftist drivel containing the word “crisis” without seeing them insert the word “existential” before it...it is as if it went out in the “talking points”...:)
So it made me pause here when I didn’t see the phrase “existential crisis”!
Yeah. What about those who put Ted Kennedy in office resulting in the immigration disaster we have today?
What about those voters who put nearly every breathing Democrat into government including people like Maxine Waters and Barney Frank, whose housing policies like the Community Reinvestment act and forced lending disasters caused millions of Americans to lose their life's savings in the housing crash?
What about those voters who put Lyndon Johnson into the White House resulting in policies that destroyed the black community in America?
What about those voters who put Jimmy Carter and other Democrats into office whose weak and rudderless foreign policy gave us the Middle East we have today?
And so on. Yeah, why won't we hold voters accountable?
That was obvious upon reading it...
Because the pathetic author of this tripe knows nothing about history.
Why ‘social justice warriors’ are the true defenders of free speech and open debate" I am not kidding you. In an act of curiousity, soiling my browser in the process, I had to read some of the article...
You ever see a college student who comes home for Thanksgiving after his second or third semester in college, and subjects everyone to the glories of various things that he was introduced to by his Leftist professors, the advantages of planned urban communities, non-profit organizations, the evils of capitalism, free healthcare and tuition, etc. and everyone else who has had years to ponder that pap rolls their eyes at the fish-like stupidity and gullibility of this starry-eyed twerp?
The author is that guy.
Hahahahahahahaha-good post!
This is what guys like him really want:
When Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn led the domestic terrorist group Weather Underground in 1969, a chance meeting led Army veteran Larry Grathwohl into joining the group. Grathwohl served as a courier, running messages between the group’s leadership (called the “Weather Bureau”) and individual cells that were to carry out attacks.
Grathwohl was also an informant for the FBI.
In an interview from the 1982 documentary No Place To Hide that recently surfaced, Grathwohl discussed what the Weathermen intended to do after overthrowing the U.S. government, including what they would do with those Americans who refused to embrace communism.
I asked, “Well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?” And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated.
And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.
And when I say “eliminate,” I mean “kill.”
Twenty-five million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.
“Today, defending our democracy begins with taking responsibility for votes cast at the ballot box each year.”
No. Today, defending democracy is having a fair media that provides oversight on behalf of the people. All people. The media is setting the narrative and now they are blaming the people? If that is the case, maybe we need to change the media.
Then he must have gotten his doctorate from Glorious Peoples University and Bait Shoppe. Or he’s just too stupid to understand history’s lessons.
Heh, love it!
i posted the following on the WaPo:
This is what we have come to in the Republic; a call from someone who obviously considers himself on the moral side of our democracy for retribution against those who do not agree with him or vote for candidates who represent —to him— a moral hazard.
It must be wonderfully liberating to be part of a power elite within the educational system that can see himself as a moral arbiter for the nation as a whole. Isn’t he the perfect little fascist, wanting to dictate to others how they must thing and participate in our public life? The Left never sees themselves as power hungry elites; they are only philosopher kings with the best interests of every plebeian inferior at the heart of their rule.
However, the flip side of this argument is that those he considers to be his moral inferiors might choose to take up his argument and hold him personally accountable for his ideas and take action accordingly.
This guy needs to go back to his academic ivory tower and forget about bleating his clarion call our to the real world. Or the next thing you know, his tower will be surrounded by mobs with pitchforks and torches who think he is a moral hazard that shouldn’t be teaching their children
Rwanda-Style politics - bump for later....
Note the conflation of two ENTIRELY different things: one is a natural death, and the other is MURDER. But that's how Leftists roll. They are a rolling murder wagon.
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