Posted on 03/11/2024 4:54:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The defense of those destroying democracy is that they are doing it to prevent others from doing what they would do, should they have been on the receiving end of exactly what they are now doing.
Joe Biden has claimed that his opponents are assaulting democracy on the basis of the January 6, 2020, buffoonish riot.
Aside from the fact that storming the Capitol Rotunda sometimes is apparently deemed permissible—as in the recent pro-Hamas takeover of it—or aside from the fact that disrupting a federal government proceeding is deemed exempt—as in the recent pro-Hamas throng that blocked the route of the presidential motorcade and thus delayed the State of the Union address to the nation by 26 minutes—who really is attacking democracy?
Take the Supreme Court. After the Court went to a 6-3 conservative majority, liberal law professors, progressive activist groups, and many ends-justify-the-means Democrats in Congress began advocating “packing the court” to gain additional new billets for left-wing judges.
In other words, the left had little confidence that it would hold the White House and the Senate when a judicial opening came up, so it sought to force the issue while it had the power in both.
Formerly, any such notion would have been written off as lunatic and dangerous, given that the nine-justice Supreme Court has been canonized for 155 years since 1869. Second, during the last time Democrats attacked the nine-justice Supreme Court over its supposedly too conservative rulings—Franklin Roosevelt’s 1937 notorious court-packing scheme—even fellow liberals opposed the toxic gambit. They knew that it would only lead to a tit-for-tat fluid court every time a new administration took power.
Then there was the public demonization of the court, which saw efforts to scare it into “correct” rulings. The effort was multifaceted.
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The left is getting ever more bold in their actions to destroy our republic. There seems to be no repercussions for their activity.
VDH ping
You can't have a representative government if those to be represented by the government have lost their minds. That would be like letting the inmates in an insane asylum vote on the management, staff, and rules of such institution.
Anti-truth, anti-individual, anti-freedom, anti-life criminals in that collective/gang/mob. Identify them.
Their view of “democracy” really boils down to them winning because that’s what the public wants from their perspective.
So if they don’t win it’s not democracy.
Bookmarking for later today.
This is the end game of "Progressivism". Progressive ideology never believed in representative government. It believed in shaping public opinion to get the people to want what it was selling.
Progressives pushed to bring about the administrative state, because the separation of powers limited government power too much.
Progressives pushed for an activist Court system, to get them what they could not pass legislatively.
Progressives considered power in the hands of the "common man" to be dangerous and stupid.
ends-justify-the-means Democrats
aka
Rrrr-Democracy Pirate Party
( red beards )
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“... should they have been on the receiving end of exactly what they are now doing.”
Have forgotten which Alinsky ‘Rules for Radicals’ rule number this is, Rush used to quote it often.
Most disturbing has been the weaponization of the U.S. military. It was on record, in promising to scour the ranks for so-called white supremacists. Yet by December 2023, the Pentagon admitted it discovered no such cabals.
But, but we’ve got Jim “Trey-Trey” Jordan on it!
Question?
Has any of “Trey-Trey’s” investigations gone any farther than a presser? I didn’t think so.
He needs to be replaced by MTG, she has bigger balls and might just get something accomplished.
bkmk
It is just like Jonestown. Jones’ followers went to Guiana to build their utopia. They had all of the same ideals as “progressives”. The fence was put up to keep non-progressives out, but it ended up keeping them in. Then, the world crumbles and out come the guns and cool aid.
Nor was the "riot" in any way incited, encouraged, or even suggested, by Trump. Wish VDH would make that point when he mentions the "riot", which he has done many times.
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American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
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VDH was on Mark Levin's program last night. He seemed overly optimistic that Merrick Garland would block an attempt to put Trump in jail before the election. Clearly the Democrats are hoping for that (witness Jimmy Kimmell at the Oscars). How would the American people react?
Their view of “democracy” really boils down to a lynch-mob.
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