What is behind recent pessimistic appraisals of democracy’s future, from Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff, Brian Williams and other elite intellectuals, media personalities, and politicians on the left?
Some warn of its possible loss in 2024. Others predict democracy’s downturn as early 2022, with scary scenarios of “autocracy” and Trump “coups.”
To answer this question, you need to first understand what isn’t behind these shrill forecasts.
They don’t worry about 2 million foreign nationals crossing the border in one year, with no vaccinations during a pandemic. It seems strange that a government would simply nullify its own immigration laws.
They are not concerned that 800,000 illegally residing foreign nationals will vote in New York City’s elections.
They are not concerned that formal efforts are underway to dismantle America’s Constitution. They have scrapped the 233-year old Electoral College or the preeminence states have in establishing ballot laws for national elections.
They don’t seem to be concerned that we are witnessing an unprecedented left wing effort to abolish the 180-year old filibuster, a nine-person Supreme Court and the 60-year history of 50 states for political advantage.
They are not alarmed that the Senate brought to trial an impeached former president and private citizen without the chief justice present, without a special procuror or witnesses, and with no formal report from the presidential high crimes and misdemeanors commission.
They are not concerned that the FBI and Justice Department, CIA and Hillary Clinton tried to use U.S. government agency to sabotage a presidential transition and campaign via the use a foreign national and ex spy Christopher Steele and his gang of discredited Russian source.
They don’t seem to be concerned that the Pentagon suddenly lost the majority support from the American people. Top current and retired officers have flagrantly violated the chain-of-command, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and without data or evidence have announced a hunt in the ranks for anyone suspected of “white rage” or “white supremacy.”
They are not worried about the fact that a record 64 per cent of the electorate didn’t vote on Election Day in 2020.
Nor are they worried that the usual rejection rate in most states of non-Election Day ballots plunged—even as an unprecedented 101 million ballots were cast by mail or early voting.
And they are certainly not worried that partisan billionaires of Silicon Valley poured well over $400 million into selected precincts in swing states to “help” public agencies conduct the election.
What then is behind this new left-wing hysteria about the supposed looming “end of democracy”?
It is very simple. The left expects to lose power over the next two years—both because of the way it gained and used it, and because of its radical, top-down agendas that never had any public support.
After gaining control of both houses of Congress and the presidency—with an obsequious media and the support of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, higher education, popular culture, entertainment, and professional sports—the left has managed in just 11 months to alienate a majority of voters.
The nation has been plagued by unprecedented crime and non-enforcement at the borders. Leftist district attorneys either won’t indict criminals, or they let them out of jail, or both.
Illegal immigration and inflation are on the rise. Fuel prices rose due to deliberate cuts in oil and gas production.
All this bad news comes on top of the Afghanistan catastrophe, worsening race relations, and an incapacitated president.
Generic polls show that Democrats are currently 10 points behind Republicans, and the midterms are less then a year away.
Joe Biden’s negatives run between 50% and 57%, in Donald Trump’s own former underwater territory.
Biden is not wanted by more than a third the country. In many head-tohead polls, Trump is now ahead of Biden.
This means that leftist elites are afraid that democracy will fail too easily.
After the Russian collusion hoax (and two impeachments), the Hunter Biden laptop stories; the Kavanaugh hearings staged melodramas; the Jussie Slolett con, Covington children smear and the Rittenhouse trial-race frenzy, the people are not only exhausted by leftist hysterias. They also weary of how the Left gains power and administers it.
If Biden were polling at 70% approval, and his policies at 60%, the current doomsayers would be reassuring us of the “health of the system.”
They are fearful and angry not because democracy doesn’t work, but because it does—despite their own media and political efforts to warp it.
If a party is taken over by radicals and uses every means necessary to gain power for agendas that few Americans agree with, average voters will express disapproval.
This reality seems to be terrifying for an elite. It then claims any system that allows the people to vote against the left is not “people power” at all.
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