Democracy is something, isn’t it? Hard to believe that the whole world does not readily embrace democracy.
Herschel Walker and John Fetterman both democratically won legitimately contested primaries for the United States Senate — democracy fair and square. One even got elected to the office.
In a lofty democracy, the people decided, based primarily on … on what? On celebrity? On name recognition? Certainly not on intelligence, not on character, not on capability, not on coherence, not on personal honor. So — celebrity, name recognition — they vote for a Jack the Ripper over Chaim Schmeryl? A Mike Huckabee can go only so far. But what of a Kamala Harris — a moron who rose politically by regularly consorting provocatively, openly, and notoriously with California’s Democrat kingmaker and accompanying him publicly to soirees while dressed like a showgirl, even though he was very publicly married?
Through democracy, she is a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Imagine her confronting Putin or Xi or Kim Jong Un or the fed chairman with a round of giggling.
This is democracy. Celebrity and name recognition. Money and advertising. Like running for class president in first grade: “Will you be my friend and vote for me? If you do, I will give you a piece of candy. You will? Great! Here’s a Tootsie Roll.”
Perhaps as bad as having candidates who are such lunkheads with profound moral failings is the much more worrying concern that the majority of voters — or a profoundly large quantity of them — are idiots; uninformed, clueless about the issues and candidates, a bunch are criminals, and yet they compose the difference on the bell curves in tight races deciding who runs the House, the Senate, the White House. They don’t know the issues. They barely know the names. They just know what their friends tell them. And the friends know only what their friends tell them. And it all comes down to eight seconds on TikTok.
Should We Have a Democracy?
When America takes on trillions more debt, these voices of democracy do not wonder where the money that does not exist comes from. They figure, “It’s just there, somewhere.” They have no idea that it is being borrowed from, say, China or Saudi Arabia. They figure Biden and Schumer simply put it all on a Mastercard or Visa, and then Biden’s and Schumer’s parents pay it at the end of the month.
They complain about higher prices at the pump but do not grasp that their votes elected the science falsifiers who turned $2 gas into $5 gas. They figured they were just voting to protect the environment, not to triple their auto fuel and home-heating costs. Or that those higher energy prices would lead to higher trucking and shipping costs and higher food-processing, farming, and producing costs, leading to higher grocery and supermarket costs. Clueless — how did that happen? Or that all those exploding prices would lead to inflation that would prompt higher interest rates on borrowing, and those rate increases would make home-buying unaffordable and even drive rents beyond reach. They had no idea. They still don’t. They simply voted for a piece of candy. (READ MORE: California Chooses Social Over Civil Engineering)
Asian Americans were hoodwinked into a fable that they are “people of color.” Are Asians really yellow? Put down the comic books and look around. Have you ever actually met someone from China, Taiwan (Formosa), Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, or another Asian region? They are not yellow. They are not “people of color.” But they get hoodwinked into believing they are intersectional with others and so get conned into voting for woke DEI politicians, who then bar them from high school magnet schools for the academically gifted and from colleges and universities for which they are well qualified by dint of their years of hard studying and focus and hard work, to make room for others below them on the intersectional food chain.
Blacks in inner cities repeatedly bullet-vote for the very Democrats whose policies on crime and punishment ensure that they or their loved ones will be murdered. Meanwhile, college kids vote as their friends do, barely grasping the issues. They don’t know what a line-item veto is. Ask a typical college kid about eminent domain or what a magistrate is or about the “establishment clause” or the “commerce clause.” If it’s not on TikTok or photographed on Instagram, who cares? What really matters is the “influencers”: what Cardi B says (not what Cardi B thinks, an oxymoron even without the oxy). Thus the student vote. Democracy. No wonder that Democrats want to lower the voting age even more. (READ MORE: Hollywood Is Demoralizing Americans, One Story at a Time)
It is hard to understand — isn’t it? — why all the world does not embrace democracy. And now our democracy is “New and Improved”: One month of voting. Universal balloting by mail. Vote harvesting. Unsupervised drop boxes. What in the world could go wrong?
Would autocracy be better? Hardly. People are people. A communist explaining Marxism: “In capitalism, man exploits man. In communism, it is the other way around.”
Ignorant Voting Means Lunkheads Prevail
So we are stuck with lunkheads and morally despicable people on both sides. For example, Biden is a lifelong crook, all done in blazing sunlight. It is the purloined letter — sitting in the open, on the desk. Forget about Hunter; focus on the Big Guy. He is a documented plagiarizer, a life-long public liar. Even stole another guy’s biography. Who does that? The Clintons, likewise, are immoral at the highest level. They are crooks — Whitewater, the Rose law firm missing billing records, and so much more. What Hillary did by subverting the election process by slipping cash to Perkins Coie, for them to hire Fusion GPS, who hired Christopher Steele to assemble the falsified dossier — all while the FBI had an office at Perkins Coie — is beyond unconscionable. As for Bill, he went through Gennifer Flowers, Paula Corbin Jones, worse with Juanita Broaddrick, then Kathleen Willey, then Monica Lewinsky.
When a family is broadcast crying on local TV news about a next-of-kin stabbed or shot to death by an illegal immigrant cavorting in a “sanctuary city” like San Francisco or Los Angeles, or pushed off a New York City subway platform, or shot dead on a Saturday night in Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, St. Louis, Memphis, Philadelphia, or some other Soros-district-attorney city run for a century by a Democrat mayor, wonder aloud for whom the weeping mourners on the TV screen voted in the prior election. Because if they voted for that government, it is not they but the law-abiding who have educated themselves on the issues who should be doing the wailing.
But people just put up with it. Until recently, they even bought Bud Light, patronized Disney and Target, went to Dodgers games, and paid to see any movie the woke put on screen.
Still, some vote for fighting crime in America, for energy independence that removes Arab Muslim sheikhdoms from exerting influence over public policy, for promoting educational curricula that focus on reading, writing, mathematics, information technology, honest history, and true science — and that remove from schools all excuses for discussing homosexual and transgender issues and for trying to groom impressionable children that they may not be the genders they actually are.
Democracy.