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WEF Adviser Calls for Elections to Be Scrapped: ‘Bad for Democracy’
SLAY News ^ | August 24, 2023 - 12:57 pm | Frank Bergman

Posted on 08/24/2023 11:38:57 AM PDT by Red Badger

A top World Economic Forum (WEF) adviser has called for an end to elections, arguing that they “are bad for democracy.”

WEF “agenda contributor” Adam Grant, who also serves as a senior adviser to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, insists that “eliminating elections altogether” would ensure that governments and public offices have “more integrity.”

The comments from Grant, who is also a senior adviser to the Department of Defense and Google, come amid concerns that Democrat President Joe Biden is preparing to enforce new Covid restrictions and even “climate lockdowns.”

If Biden were to declare a climate or Covid “emergency,” he would be awarded sweeping new powers to enforce restrictions that could disrupt the critical 2024 election.

In an article for the New York Times, Grant suggests that the taxpaying public cannot be trusted to vote and argues that elections should be scrapped.

Per the article:

Officials have been working hard to safeguard elections and assure citizens of their integrity.

But if we want public office to have integrity, we might be better off eliminating elections altogether. [emphasis added]

If you think that sounds anti-democratic, think again.

The ancient Greeks invented democracy, and in Athens many government officials were selected through sortition — a random lottery from a pool of candidates.

In the United States, we already use a version of a lottery to select jurors.

What if we did the same with mayors, governors, legislators, justices and even presidents?

To replace the current election system, Grant advocates for “randomly selecting” officials from a “pool of candidates.”

Globalist WEF official Grant is vague on the details regarding who forms the “pool” and how they are admitted, however.

Nevertheless, the pool would be formed by the no-longer-elected “guardians of our democracy.”

Only the people deemed acceptable to these all-powerful unelected bureaucrats would be allowed to be randomly selected.

Indeed, Grant explains that those seeking to enter the “pool” would need to be vetted:

In America, imagine that anyone who wants to enter the pool has to pass a civics test — the same standard as immigrants applying for citizenship.

According to Grant, however, the plan isn’t just about “saving democracy.”

He explains that ending elections could save taxpayers billions.

“Switching to sortition would save a lot of money too,” he attests.

“The 2020 elections alone cost upward of $14 billion.

“And if there’s no campaign, there are no special interests offering to help pay for it.”

Grant’s calls for scrapping elections are not new, however.

WEF founder and chairman Klaus Schwab has previously pushed for an end to the public’s voting power.

During the WEF’s annual gathering in 2017, Schwab discussed the idea of using a “prescriptive mode” to form the will of the electorate.

According to Schwab, his plan would mean society would do without elections.

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The WEF views political systems with competing political parties as “toxic.”

The globalist organization often discusses “detoxifying politics” and calls for ending political party competition.

Another organization forming the WEF’s agenda, “Well-being Alliance,” also suggests going away from “party politics.”

The “Well-being” agenda is already being implemented in eight countries around the world.

According to this agenda, the future is “free of party politics,” with “detoxified” discourse and leaders selected from a pool of WEF-approved candidates.

The discourse will be free of undesirable “misinformation,” even if the unwanted information is true.

The general population does not deserve a voice because members of the public are considered “toxic” and far too incompetent to select our future glorious leaders.

The WEF knows best: “You’ll own nothing and be happy.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: adamgrant; billgates; despotism; destroywef; elections; enemyofhumanity; greatreset; leanin; totalitarianism; totalitarians; tyranny; wef
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1 posted on 08/24/2023 11:38:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Words cannot accurately describe how much I loathe the WEF!


2 posted on 08/24/2023 11:39:59 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Red Badger

There’s not going to be a 2024 election but its not because of the WEF.


3 posted on 08/24/2023 11:40:34 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Red Badger

Too bad that Che is no longer available to take people out back.


4 posted on 08/24/2023 11:41:32 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Red Badger

History is littered with the perpetrators, victims, and liberators of the above pernicious idea.


5 posted on 08/24/2023 11:43:53 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: Red Badger

Return to Royalty?


6 posted on 08/24/2023 11:47:26 AM PDT by FatherofFive (I support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: FatherofFive
"Return to Royalty?"

More like feudalism.

7 posted on 08/24/2023 11:49:14 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: Red Badger

The enemies of the USA are making themselves known out in the open. They must feel secure knowing they are untouchable. This is not a good sign.

Who are those enemies? Obviously the WEF, WHO, the democrat party, the RINOs who carry their water, and the worst of them all, the deep state for working covertly to destroy the USA from within. The WEF, WHO, rat party, and rino’s could not do this without the explicit permission and help from the deep state.


8 posted on 08/24/2023 11:50:47 AM PDT by Boomer (X-Twitter is NOT a free speech platform. The scummy Marxists are back in charge. )
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To: FatherofFive

The Democrats and progressives in general have been actively trying to destroy the democratic process for decades. When an election is held in fair conditions they get destroyed. At this point they simple can’t change another Trump or Reagan.

The WEF is clearly a totalitarian fascist ideologically driven gang of thugs that need to be treated like an enemy power and terrorist organization. The problem is most of the governments of the world believe the same fascist crap as the WEF. We live in dark days.


9 posted on 08/24/2023 11:51:07 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: Red Badger

Certainly leading to a One World Government…..


10 posted on 08/24/2023 11:51:50 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: FatherofFive

They do seem to aiming for some sort of new aristocracy, this time with a Maoist tinge.


11 posted on 08/24/2023 11:51:52 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Red Badger

“Grant explains that those seeking to enter the “pool” would need to be vetted:”

Uh huh right, and who does the vetting?


12 posted on 08/24/2023 11:52:46 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: Red Badger

>> If Biden were to declare a climate or Covid “emergency,” he would be awarded sweeping new powers

The only thing Jao Beidan would be “awarded” is a self-inflicted pandemic — of lead poisoning.


13 posted on 08/24/2023 11:53:10 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
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To: Red Badger

Translation: “The only way we can save democracy is by abolishing elections.”


14 posted on 08/24/2023 11:54:16 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Red Badger

“According to this agenda, the future is “free of party politics,” with “detoxified” discourse and leaders selected from a pool of WEF-approved candidates.”


So they will be making official what already happens.


15 posted on 08/24/2023 11:54:45 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Red Badger

I’d bet that if people were allowed to decide in the existence of the WEF, that we’d no longer have a WEF,and we’d be better off.


16 posted on 08/24/2023 11:55:17 AM PDT by adorno
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To: Red Badger

Rush Limbaugh predicted this.


17 posted on 08/24/2023 11:56:07 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Charles Martel
They do seem to aiming for some sort of new aristocracy, this time with a Maoist tinge.

That's what Maoism has always been. Killing the legitimate leaders to supplant them with a new autocratic leadership based on the Party.
18 posted on 08/24/2023 11:56:18 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Red Badger
Considering that elections are pretty much rigged, if not in fact, by the two-party control of who can get on the ballot, we are basically at the point where we don't have actual elections. And by my guess, democracy has not improved, nor has the governance of our country.

Without vibrant elections, the politicians have no accountability. And when they are not held responsible for bad policy or corruption, we end up with both.

19 posted on 08/24/2023 11:57:38 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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--- "The good news is the Elite trust each other and can come together and do beautiful things together. The bad news is that in every country they polled, the majority of people trusted their elite less."

Completely out in the open.

Go listen to: https://twitter.com/HallofFameMemes/status/1693394058016657660

20 posted on 08/24/2023 12:02:05 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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