Posted on 01/06/2022 6:57:16 AM PST by Magnatron
In the lead-up to the one-year mark of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, a Politico guest writer argued on Wednesday that the Republican Party as well as the U.S. Constitution are threatening democracy.
Corey Robin, a professor of political Science at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, contributed an opinion column for Politico titled "Republicans Are Moving Rapidly to Cement Minority Rule. Blame the Constitution." As the title implied, Robin suggested the Republican Party as well as the U.S. Constitution are preventing the "national majority" from acting.
"Driving the initiatives of the Republicans and the inertia of the Democrats are two forces. The first is the right’s project, decades in the making, to legally limit the scope and reach of democracy. The second is the Constitution, which makes it difficult for the national majority to act and easy for local minorities to rule. What happened on Jan. 6 is far less significant than what happened before Jan. 6 — and what has and has not happened since then," Robin wrote.
While the Republican Party is targeted by Robin as "a novel threat to American democracy," Robin concludes that the political party is using the barriers imposed by the Constitution.
"Democracy is not just the enemy of the Republican Party. It is also the enemy of the Constitution," Robin wrote.
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Sounds like Obama
I stopped reading right there.
Yes, he's 100% correct.
The Federal Constitution is one of the strongest anti-democratic governing documents in the world, it was written that way and for that exact purpose.
Progressives have been the enemy of the Constitution since the 19th century, long before they became the cold dead hands of the USSR still grasping at out collective throats to destroy us.
Likewise, there are plenty of people who would argue that law and order is a danger to society.
There is no shortage of people who argue for absurdities.
Leftists like mob rule democracy because they can control it. I acknowledge of our founding fathers and subscribe wholeheartedly to their design. But the Left is on the verge of beating their system with the combined help of crooked judges, DAs and the media. We must bite back hard . . . and soon.
They are pushing to completely erase the Constitution, after having nullified it in practice. That’s OK— it protects them, too, which they soon will learn.
. . . acknowledge the wisdom of. . . .
Well, actually the constitution is SUPPOSED to be the enemy of true democracy...
The founders knew that democracy is a failed construct, it leads simply to MOB RULE...
Which is why the constitution establishes a democratic REPUBLIC...
The last thing the founders wanted as a absolute democracy... so from that viewpoint the Constitution is indeed the enemy of true democracy and it was always intended to be so.
“Democracy is not just the enemy of the Republican Party. It is also the enemy of the Constitution,”
I WISH the GOP took ochlocracy so seriously.
That’s because it is SUPPOSED to be a restriction on democracy - AKA tyranny by the masses.
The US Constitution is designed to protect the rights of self-determination of INDIVIDUALS, not the commune.
You would think.
City University of New York
Any exposure I’ve had to them reveals them as a 100% spoiled American woke marxist puppy-mill
Agree entirely. I wrote the same, after you did, as I did not see your post. You’re entirely correct.
The US Constitution IS the enemy of democracy. The founders hated the concept of a democracy and equated it to mob rule. That is why we have a Republic.
“Yes, he’s 100% correct.
The Federal Constitution is one of the strongest anti-democratic governing documents in the world, it was written that way and for that exact purpose.”
It’s our shield from anarchy and mob rule.
A ‘democracy’ is what you got when the populace arose in France in 1799. Their ‘democracy’ begat kangaroo courts and guillotines. The writer obviously doesn’t know the difference between a constitutional republic and democracy.
Yes, a liberal was shocked that I didn’t want to endorse “Democracy.” I had to explain that the Founding Fathers were well versed in Greek and Roman history; they took some democracy from the Greeks and republic philosophy from the Romans to put it simply. Of course, we all know there’s a lot of other things mixed in but I was just explaining about democracy.
I am sick of hearing about “democracy”. Heck yes the Constitution is it’s enemy, and so am I. Why does anyone think “democracy” sounds so much like “Democrat”? When they speak of the “end of democracy”, they are lamenting the impending demise of the Democrat party. It can’t happen soon enough for me.
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