I have written before about the recent tendency of US Democrat Party members to act to subvert the idea of democracy in attempts to rile up citizens, cultivating and nurturing democracy in the process. Like stoking a fire, except it is not as simple as poking some embers with a stick to send up a shower of sparks.
The Democrat Party technique on display is more akin to dumping toxic flammable chemicals on the fire, with the result that the vaporized fumes become so noxious that people are driven away. The end result is that there is less competition in controlling the reigns of power. Whether this is intentional or not, it appears to be the only rational ideology behind the Democrat Party’s otherwise intense obsession with enacting the most aggravating, stupifying, amorally abhorrent policies.
Look no further than the US Supreme Court case Moore vs. Harper, which recently produced a decision on states’ rights pertaining to the autonomy of state legislatures. Therein, the Republican-led North Carolina State legislature’s efforts to redraw congressional district lines were rebuked because they produced a result favorable to Republicans. The state Democrats criticized those results as gerrymandering and forced a redraw which led to a near-even split.
Which is gerrymandering?
Looking at a map of the congressional districts might be the best way, as gerrymandering is most evident when the lines of the districts make such a convoluted shape that it appears to be lizardesque in nature, like a salamander. But is it gerrymandering to draw a map arbitrarily or to intentionally draw a map that balances the division of elected representatives? If the state is actually more Republican-leaning by the percentage of the population, then it is surely gerrymandering to adjust the lines so as to favor the Democrats.
Inevitably, the federal-level Supreme Court has stepped in to overturn states’ rights. The Economist, a left-leaning, subtly partisan magazine, noted that “the Supreme Court has stood up against a subversion of democracy.” Yet, in this case, SCOTUS has exercised federal will over states’ rights. That in itself is a subversion of democracy! An unelected, 9-person judiciary body somehow thinks that whatever it does protects democracy by default?
The one action at the federal level that most champions democracy is for federal actors to take a poll of the citizens affected by the issue, in this case, North Carolina residents, and follow the majority’s will on the issue. Today’s Democrat Party too often has followed the minority’s will, which is frequently subject to bigotry, misunderstanding of the values and traditions of the nation as a whole, and intent on attacking the majority rather than building the prosperity of the entire nation.
It is a great tragedy when a minority group thinks that the best way forward is for a majority group to lose, be destroyed, or be weakened. That is dangerously myopic, zero-sum thinking. That is not the best way forward in a true democracy of upstanding, intelligent citizens. An enlightened minority would recognize that their fellow citizens in the majority should also gain from the steps forward taken. The majority is not in the way of the minority necessarily. The best way forward is one where all benefit.
Joe Biden and his junta administration have constantly used the hyperbolic statement that “democracy is under attack” and that they must “defend democracy” in an effort to rally support in a national political struggle. The idea is that anyone opposed to Democrat Party policies is, by default, attacking democracy. The Democrat Party, by this rationale, can do whatever it wants, carte blanche and those actions are automatically in support of democracy.
This is a twisting of words and ideas that is repulsive, despicable, and only works on the most sycophantic and idiotic. It is fundamentally incorrect and wrong. It depends on citizens’ inaction, cowardice, and disinterest, which it also coincidentally seeks to bolster.
Specifically, we must divide our understanding and pay special attention to the difference between a capital-D Democrat and a small-d democrat. At the moment, the former is nothing more than petty tyrants, Nazi-supporting authoritarians, speech-censoring fascists, and the mentally deranged projecting their mistakes onto everyone else. They are fortunate that the other citizens of the planet are so tolerant, and we are all praying that the 2024 election comes soon enough to prevent matters from getting worse.
Real cultivation of democracy involves compassionately building a political arena with multiple (i.e., five or more) political parties that ensure that everyone’s needs are met and that the duties of government are fulfilled. We need more of that mindset in Washington, DC, which necessarily requires forcing the democracy subverters to move somewhere else.
