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Why Is the Left Suddenly Worried About the End of Democracy?
Townhall.com ^ | Dec. 16, 2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 12/16/2021 12:16:47 PM PST by Michael.SF.

What then is behind this new left-wing hysteria about the supposed looming end of democracy?

It is quite simple. The Left expects to lose power over the next two years - both because of the way it gained and used it, and because of its radical, top-down agendas that never had any public support.

After gaining control of both houses of Congress and the presidency - with an obsequious media and the support of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, higher education, popular culture, entertainment and professional sports - the Left has managed in just 11 months to alienate a majority of voters.

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Excellent, must read from VDH.
1 posted on 12/16/2021 12:16:47 PM PST by Michael.SF.
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To: Michael.SF.

We’ll see what happens in the midterms and 2024. We have to be wary of undue optimism. We’ve all been here before.


2 posted on 12/16/2021 12:18:30 PM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Michael.SF.

They’re projecting... they WANT it to end so they can control elections and this policy into perpetuity.


3 posted on 12/16/2021 12:18:36 PM PST by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: Michael.SF.
Why Is the Left Suddenly Worried About the End of Democracy?t eternal control of everything?

Fixed.

4 posted on 12/16/2021 12:21:49 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Michael.SF.

As per usual.


5 posted on 12/16/2021 12:22:40 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Michael.SF.

Gosh. If US citizens actually had a say in how our government functions, it would be the end of democracy.


6 posted on 12/16/2021 12:22:41 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Mass hypnosis of society. So many people are blind to the Truth which is in front of them.)
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To: Michael.SF.

Progressives liberals and Democrats all feel the US is on stolen land with no right to exist.
This political meme will not help them


7 posted on 12/16/2021 12:23:16 PM PST by NoLibZone (Ruling class noticed our total lack of pushback for how the election & Covid was handled.)
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To: Michael.SF.
What then is behind this new left-wing hysteria about the supposed looming end of democracy? It is quite simple. The Left expects to lose power over the next two years [...]

Yes, a brilliant chess move! It could be quite an effective narrative to use. I wonder among which voting block it would be most popular: Effete upper class intellectuals ("limousine liberals"), die-hard leftists, or low-information lower class ethnic voters ("Gibmedats"). In other words: To whom, primarily, will the leftist "talking heads" on t.v. attempt to sell it?

In any event: Let's hope that it doesn't gain any traction.

Regards,

8 posted on 12/16/2021 12:23:42 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Michael.SF.

“When a party is hijacked by radicals and uses almost any means necessary to gain and use power for agendas that few Americans support, then average voters express their disapproval.

That reality apparently terrifies an elite. It then claims any system that allows the people to vote against the Left is not people power at all.”

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I wonder what the actual number of votes the democrats get sans cheating.


9 posted on 12/16/2021 12:24:18 PM PST by youngidiot (Race is irrelevant to everyone except the racists )
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To: NoLibZone
the US is on stolen land

I always laugh at the ignorant people who believe that.

You cannot "steal" something from someone who believes that the land does not belong to them, which was the belief of the American Indians.

10 posted on 12/16/2021 12:29:21 PM PST by Michael.SF. (Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal. )
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To: Michael.SF.

Translation is in the next-last sentence: “Any election that removes leftists from power is undemocratic.”


11 posted on 12/16/2021 12:33:29 PM PST by Migraine
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To: Michael.SF.

More Leftist projection......


12 posted on 12/16/2021 12:35:39 PM PST by cranked
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To: Michael.SF.

The intro to the paperback book DOCTOR ZHIVAGO by Pasternak said it best.

“With awe and terror he recreates modern history’s most titanic effort to bring forth A NEW WORLD from DELIBERATELY CREATED CHAOS.”

Sounds a lot like BIDEN’S “ Build Back Better!” plan.


13 posted on 12/16/2021 12:52:38 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Still OUT of Facebook Jail! But I'm pushing it!)
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To: Michael.SF.

First you have to understand how Democrats define “democracy”. Democracy = Socialist Communism.

“You hate democracy!” by your deceptive psyops definition and narrative you are absolutely right I do...


14 posted on 12/16/2021 12:52:42 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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Because they want to come out on top?
Revolutions are no fun when the opposition is winning.

15 posted on 12/16/2021 12:57:39 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Openurmind

True, these radicals twist language.

Communists have done this in the past.

Remember the German Democratic Republic? What about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? People’s Republic of China? The Republic of Cuba?

These names imply that these regimes are democratic, with a small “d”, republican with a small “r”, and that they reflect the will of the people who allegedly elected them to power.


16 posted on 12/16/2021 1:00:05 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Bishop_Malachi

Midterms will largely be stolen, and either the Demonrats will still have control of the House (PELOSI) or there will be a “Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords” type that will give it back to them. Look, we’re not voting our way out of this. There will be blood before it’s over.


17 posted on 12/16/2021 1:05:46 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: Michael.SF.

Tellingly, the term used is not “Democracy”, it’s “Our Democracy”, the system that brought “Us” into power and denied it to “Them”, i.e. “You”: the unwashed, the Deplorables, the White Supremacists. Don’t think for a moment that “Our Democracy” includes a respect for one’s opponents or their votes.


19 posted on 12/16/2021 1:16:56 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: youngidiot

I have often wondered that myself


20 posted on 12/16/2021 1:28:09 PM PST by Karoo
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