Whenever anyone references our Democracy, especially on social media, someone, typically several of them, feels compelled to remind anyone in range that we live in a Republic, with good reason. No one is taught that. You have to learn it on your own. You also must learn that it is a Federal Republic, and everything else below that is a Democracy.
The majority vote (50.01%) decides local, county, and state elections. It defines the mob. There’s a lot of incentive to cheat and a lot more disinterest in ferreting it out, and anyone who brags about how good their elections are is probably the reason they aren’t. It is, therefore, the role of anyone who sides with less government and more individual liberty to inform people and get them to the ballot box on election days. Only overwhelming numbers of legal votes can overcome the flaws that many working within the system have no interest in policing, let alone correcting.
Legitimate wins are to be celebrated (that’s c-e-l-e-b…), and not just because it offends the cheaters—the government-first folks—the people who are so anti-Democracy that they call themselves Democrats to hide it.
Tyranny of the Bureaucracy
There is no shortage of examples, but this one is recent and particularly galling. Congress voted to revoke, repeal, rescind, and countermand any notion that California has the authority to require anyone to buy an electric vehicle by 2030 … or you’re walking.
Elected members voted in both chambers and sent it to the President, who signed it. Democrats, unhappy that this petty tyranny has been denied them, are insisting that what happened can’t. Congress and the president can’t undo this.
[W]e are seeing the “Save our democracy” movement evolve into a bizzarro world where regulations written by bureaucrats, and which effectively serve as federal law, are immune from being overturned by Congress, the law-making body under the Constitution. …
Democrats are arguing that there is some nuance of this regulation that forever prohibits Congress and the President from rolling it back. California Governor Gavin Newsom and Senator Adam Schiff, among others, have vowed to go find a District Judge somewhere to overrule Congress and the President, and thereby rule that regulations created by communist bureaucrats are forever immune from being terminated by actual lawmakers.
Whatever form of government we have, it is not a “democracy” if bureaucrats are writing laws and judges prohibit lawmakers from blocking those regulations.
We should be thankful. This is an opportunity—a teaching moment. Comrades Newsom and Schiff have served up a stinking plate of crap that the entire Democrat party should be made to eat. Feed it to them.
Saving Democracy
I doubt you’ve got any elected Democrats anywhere near you who haven’t mentioned “saving the democracy ” once or twice, at least. Find them. Ask them. Who gave California bureaucrats the authority to issue regulations with national implications that cannot be overturned by Congress and a sitting President?
How do people in California get to decide what kind of cars you need or get to drive, or institute policies that will have a significant economic impact on not just transportation but the cost of energy, which impacts the price of everything?
Start with members of Congress who voted against the repeal of whatever rule this was, and don’t forget the locals.
I thought you wanted to save the Democracy?
We’d love to hear the answers.
