Posted on 11/13/2024 12:39:59 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) announced on Wednesday a nonpartisan state-level initiative to foster collaboration with fellow governors to protect against threats to democracy and strengthen government institutions.
The nonpartisan coalition of governors, Governors Safeguarding Democracy (GSD), will “leverage the collective strength, experience, and institutional knowledge in governors’ offices across the country to craft laws and policies that protect the rule of law and serve the people of our great states,” according to the group’s website.
Pritzker and Polis, who will serve as co-chairs of the new alliance, launched GSD one week after the election, which saw President-elect Trump secure his return to the White House.
The announcement did not mention any politician or political group by name but said the launch comes “as the nation faces increasing threats against American democracy – including the dangers of authoritarianism and the undermining of democratic institutions.”
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We all want “the rule of law.”
It’s obviously not what he really means.
This is Dem infighting, trying to counter-balance Gavin Newsom’s presumptive leadership of the party.
It’s going to be great fun to watch these losers fight among themselves.
When they meet, Trump’s FBI can collect their phones.
They will do everything necessary to protect Our Democracy™ from the will and the votes of the citizens.
A number of Democratic Governors have their sights set on running for POTUS in 2028, Pritzker and Polis are two of them, they are forming this group as a demonstration to their liberal base of how they are fighting back against Trump.
Besides these two, throw in Newsome, Whitmer, Shapiro and I’m sure a couple more and you the makings of a very crowded field in 4 years on the Democratic Side
It’s all a side show that means nothing, they have no real power and are just showboating.
A democracy is a political system in which the peopleperiodically, by majority vote at the polls, select their rulers. The rulers then have absolute power to make whatever laws they please, by majority vote among themselves.Just in case anyone might be mistaken about what Pritzker and Polis are looking to “safeguard”.
In a constitutional Republic, the people also, by majority vote at the polls, select rulers, who make laws by majority vote among themselves; but the rulers cannot make any laws they please because the Constitution severely restricts their lawmaking power.
The ideal of a democracy is universal equality. The ideal of a constitutional Republic is individual liberty.
In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our Republic and transforming it into a democracy. One tactic of the subverters is subversion of language. By calling the United States a democracy until people thoughtlessly accept and use the term, totalitarians have obscured the real meaning of our principles of government.
— Dan Smoot Report, 1966
Could this be a trial balloon for instigating session?
Sorry JB, we didn’t hear you with all the gunfire behind you. Could you repeat that?
Have another drink Dick
Like Governor George Wallace in the doorway of the University of Alabama?
despicable little corrupt pric#
Can they identify any specific threats to democracy?
Translation: Give more power to the government to control the lives of the citizens.
Cut off ALL Federal Funding.
STARVE the morons. Then again, their citizens just may solve this issue on their own after funding cut.
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Too late. It is the end of democracy with Trump elected.
Does that mean the Democrats really get to pick their candidate with primaries next time?
Lol.
Call me an optimist, but I like seeing it when states fight for their rights. I think it returns us to a point closer to the Republic as established by our founders. Even though these two guys probably don’t intend it to work out that way, there is a law of unintended consequences that is likely to bite them in the butt.
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