Posted on 01/19/2024 7:06:58 AM PST by MtnClimber
As the 2024 election campaign begins in earnest, the Democratic Party has apparently decided that its central electoral pitch will be that American democracy itself is at stake in this year’s national elections. This was the central theme of President Biden’s first major campaign speech of the year, dutifully echoed by lower-ranking Democrats and the Party’s megaphones in the media and among the left intelligentsia. Unable to run on a record of competent custodianship of the seemingly less lofty policy issues that concern many voters—like the economy, foreign policy, and immigration—Biden and the Democrats must present themselves as the only backstop against the dire prospect of regime change.
This kind of framing is not, moreover, limited to the Left’s understanding of American politics. It is how they view, or at least how they choose to present, the world political situation. Case in point: an op-Ed recently appeared in Bloomberg News offering the strange warning that “2024 is the Year of Elections, and That’s a Threat to Democracy.” Despite its alarming title, the piece is less frightening than instructive. Written by a former deputy editor at the New York Times, Tobin Harshaw, the column sheds valuable light on the character and thought processes of the liberal governing class.
The piece is lacking in real substance; indeed, it is almost vacuous. Its vacuity is instructive, however, because it opens a window on the thinking—or, if that is too generous a term, on the mental reflexes—of the class of people who govern the western nations, and who evidently believe that they have a right to govern them.
The article is entirely dedicated to admonishing us that democracy is at stake all over the world in 2024, but without ever defining the term “democracy,” or dealing with the evident paradox that elections...
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I hope democrats are noticing just how crazy their leftists are.
BTTT
Trump should announce and implement a strategy to “fortify “ the 2024 Election. The Leftist heads will explode.
I’m gonna sell MAGA rain suits for protection from “progressive” brain splatter
No matter how I look at this mess I don’t see an election in November. More likely it will get Kray kray and we get an intervention.
Intervention?
“Democracy” is a much abused and misused term, insofar as it relates to the Democrat Socialists here in the US. Democratic means, the method by which a rule by the majority is determined in a fair and legally defined process of voting, is only a process, and does not define what ethical standards or moral principles apply.
Trying to get Democrat Socialists to abide by the rules is like nailing Jell-O to the wall.
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