Below is my column in The Hill on the latest calls to protect democracy with distinctly undemocratic measures. Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton insisted that the 2024 election was our D-Day, suggesting that voters would have to fight the GOP like the Nazis in World War II. Clinton previously called on Europe to censor American citizens when Twitter sought to dismantle its censorship program and called her defeat in the 2016 election “illegitimate.” Yet, for many civil libertarians, the “defenders of democracy” are the very threat to democracy going into the 2024 election.
Here is the column:
In 2024, the greatest test for our Constitution may be whether it can survive the “Defenders of Democracy.”
Ronald Reagan often said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Today, Reagan’s line cannot compare with the line that sends many of us into a fetal position: “I’m a Democrat and I am here to save democracy.”
The jump scare claim is that unless citizens vote for democrats, the end of democracy will begin shortly. In 2022, House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told “Fox News Sunday” that “democracy will be ending” if Democrats lost the midterms.
The rhetoric has continued to ramp up with the upcoming election.
From President Joe Biden to a host of progressive politicians and pundits, the 2024 election is all about saving democracy. The public has been told that if the Democrats lose power, citizens will be living in a tyrannical hellscape. Vice President Kamala Harris stated in one interview that 2024 “genuinely could be” the last democratic election in America’s history. Dozens of Democrats have said that democracy will end if Biden is not reelected.
The Washington Post even ran an op-ed titled, “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.”
Many Americans have tuned out the overheated rhetoric, as shown by Donald Trump’s continuing lead in many polls even after his conviction in Manhattan. The warnings also ignore that our system has checks and balances that protected democracy for centuries as the world’s oldest and most successful constitutional system. These dire predictions would require all three branches to fail in an unprecedented fashion.
While these figures cite the Capitol riot on Jan 6., 2021 as evidence of the pending collapse of democracy, the system worked as designed on that day. Congress refused to be deterred by the riot and virtually every court (including many presided over by Trump-appointed judges) rejected challenges to the election.
The most obvious threats today to the democratic system are coming from the left, not the right.
Democratic secretaries of state sought to block Trump from the ballot in 2024, and Democratic members sought to bar roughly 120 colleagues from their respective ballots. It seemed that the greatest threat to democracy was its exercise by voters. Fortunately, a unanimous Supreme Court rejected the theory and added, “Nothing in the Constitution requires that we endure such chaos.”
There has also been a push by Democrats to keep third-party candidates off ballots. Again, the last thing democracy needs is for voters to have more democratic choice.
In New York, Democratic congressional candidate Paula Collins even suggested that, after the election, the focus must be on “re-education” of MAGA voters, although she acknowledged that “that sounds like a rather, a re-education camp. I don’t think we really want to call it that. I’m sure we can find another way to phrase it.”
Democratic operatives are using the same rationalization to call for biased reporting to help Biden get reelected.
Democratic strategist James Carville this week demanded more “slanted” media coverage against Donald Trump to save democracy. Carville was triggered by New York Times editor Joe Kahn suggesting that the newspaper report the news in a fair and neutral manner. The suggestion sent many pundits into vapors at the very thought of reembracing objectivity in journalism.
“I don’t have anything against slanted coverage,” Carville insisted. “I really don’t, I would have something against it at most other times in American history, but not right now. F— your objectivity. The real objectivity in this country right now is we’re either going to have a Constitution or we’re not.”
It was particularly galling to hear the call for “slanted coverage” in the same week that the Hunter Biden laptop was authenticated and used as evidence in his Delaware trial. The government has called the widely reported claim that the laptop was “Russian disinformation” a debunked “conspiracy theory.” Carville was making his pitch for more biased reporting to the very media that buried the laptop story before the last election and spent two years in denial of its authenticity.
Yet, many journalists agree with Carville. Some journalism schools have been teaching that reporters need to dump concepts of objectivity and neutrality to achieve political and social reforms.
This week, reporters were irate after Washington Post publisher and CEO William Lewis issued a blunt message that the newspaper could not survive after losing half of its readership and tens of millions of dollars last year. He told the staff: “People are not reading your stuff. Right. I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.”
The fear that these newspapers might cover Biden and Trump in a fair and balanced way was immediately denounced as . . . wait for it . . . a threat to democracy. After Carville’s meltdown, the Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan warned Kahn and others that “our very democracy is on the brink, and how the Times covers that existential threat is of extraordinary importance.” She then asked whether the paper will “forthrightly identify the problems posed by a radicalized Republican Party that is increasingly dedicated to lies, bad-faith attacks and the destruction of democratic norms.”
Sullivan expressed alarm that the media would “try to cut the situation straight down the middle as if we were still in the old days — an era that no longer exists?”
The “era” appears to be the golden age of journalism when most Americans respected and patronized the same media outlets. Now, citizens are fleeing mainstream media, and polls indicate that they view reporters as pursuing the very political agendas embraced by figures like Carville and Sullivan.
Many voters are also responding to what they see as the politicalization of the criminal justice system, particularly with Trump’s recent trial in Manhattan. Again, these cases are being embraced as key to “defending democracy” when many citizens view them as the very antithesis of a nation committed to the rule of law.
This glaring disconnect was evident when President Joe Biden spoke on the top of the Point-du-Hoc in Normandy on the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Biden again used the event to suggest that democracy was in danger in the United States with the upcoming election. Yet, Biden has overseen widespread government censorship with federal agencies targeting those with opposing views on everything from elections and climate change to COVID-19 and transgender policies.
As Democratic secretaries of state sought to bar Trump from ballots, Biden refused to oppose the efforts. When liberal law professors and members demanded to pack the Supreme Court to guarantee a liberal majority, Biden refused to denounce it during the last campaign.
This is why some in the country may view Biden and the Democrats as existential threats not just to democracy, but to themselves. They see a party that is engaged in efforts to cleanse ballots (of Republicans), censor dissenting voices and prosecute political opponents. That is not exactly what propelled those men to climb the cliff of Pointe-du-Hoc in 1944.
Fortunately, our democracy does not depend on any president. It was designed by James Madison to withstand the worst, not the best, motivations of our leaders. After all, Madison wrote in Federalist #51, “If Men were angels, no government would be necessary.”
The system that he designed has withstood political, economic and social crises, including a civil war. It may even protect us from today’s “defenders of democracy.”
Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Great article. We are not a democracy. We do not function as a country via mob rule. We are a constitutional republic.
https://www.usconstitution.net/republic-vs-democracy/
Absolutely, a constitutional republic. That will stand or fall on democratic process. There is nothing contained in “Democrat” that is democratic. And if nothing, no aspect of them, is democratic, what are they?
Madison did indeed craft a brilliant tripartite system of checks and balances. He just left out term limits, which has unfortunately resulted in a political elite ruling class committing horrendous abuses of power, enriching themselves at the expense of the sovereign people. We must complete his project to prevent such abuse of power.
Stop letting the left control the dialogue. We don’t have a democracy; we have a democratic republic. Democracy is rule by the mob which is what democrats want.
Well Hilary Clinton continues to perpetuate her acting credentials by playing her role as the Sea Hag from Beowulf. She more and more “gets out there” in her venomous statements and supposed observations. Too bad there is not a modern day Beowulf lurking around her estate in NY.
She also reminds me very much of Cato the Younger.
He lived off the reputation of his ancestor Cato the elder. He was a strong advocate for the Roman republic. His inability to compromise and harsh personal attacks on a variety of powerful politicians such as Caesar , Pompey, Crassus and others hardened the opposition to him. His total obstructionism in the Senate and failure to compromise forced work arounds that weakened the Republic that he was supposedly saving. Even tried to falsely implicate Caesar in a massive scandal of which Caesar had no part. Sounds familiar. Also tried to destroy Caesar with Prosecution which would have destroyed the Julian Family. Also sounds familiar. When Caesar reached the Rubicon his choice was leave the army, get arrested and face personal and family extinction or cross with his army and start a civil war. Well we know what Caesar did. It was the obvious choice.
Cato eventually fell on his sword and exited the stage.
A lot of historians fault Cato as being one of the driving forces for the civil war because of his obstructionism, unwillingness to compromise in a system that lived on compromise, harsh personal attacks and vendettas against Caesar and others and his building a group to push lawfare and destroy Caesar and his supporters with prosecution. There is a lesson there for those who care to learn it.
All I can see at this point is the terror, real or feigned, of the democrats when they face Trump and the readiness to disparage so many of the working people who used to make up their party. Not only do the disparage and vilify the working people of this country but they pursue policies that lose them buying power for their dollars and other essentials of life, such as a working car and a home, become unobtainable. They have a lot to answer for.
GEB,
That was a very interesting historical comparison.
It has been noted in polls that college educated leftists see it as better for the country that they be the only ones allowed to vote as your working class, non-college educated, American is too . . . dumb to be allowed to vote.
I noted yesterday that our so-called elites feel their well being and lifestyle is being threatened when the rest of us dont vote in their best interest, or we question their narrative.
Rather then just, “Shut up and do as I say!” as some would cry, we would rather think for ourselves and vote in our best interest.
*vote in our best interest*
Biden and Trump are both rotten
so who? RFK? No thanks.
GEB, as you refer to Cato I will remind you that Cicero, one of the great minds of the ancient world, and also a supporter of the republic, ended up getting pelted with feces by the so-called masses and killed by the powers that ruled the state.
To me Cato conjures Bernie Sanders and the uncompromising, butter, anti-social radical who actually does more harm than good to those he supposedly wants to help.
As for the Rubicon metaphor it might be said that Biden crossed the Rubicon with his lawfare attacks except that I find it impossible to equate the feckless, weak minded and feeble Joe Biden with Caesar.
Reply to Hullbobby-Cicero spoke well but was a coward. Also as Counsel he condemned a man to death and had him executed without a trial. A NO NO in
Rome. Used by Augustus to in turn order the execution of Cicero. Things can come back to bite you
“that sounds like a rather, a re-education camp. I don’t think we really want to call it that. I’m sure we can find another way to phrase it.”
How about “summer camp.” And the place for cleansing a “bath house.” The Left can even play pleasant music, as they march dissenters to the “showers.”
Does it sound barbaric, because it is (child genital mutilation)? Deceive the public via manipulating words, to make it sound vanilla (“gender-affirming care”).
Then hope the public doesn’t look at reality. But mindlessly swallows your words.
Sam,
I had the same thought about the “I’m sure we can find another way to phrase it.”
To me, this is real insight to exactly what they think of anyone not a leftists.
The upcoming election is We The People still in pursuit of a more perfect Union. We might do ourselves a service by remembering two things. One is from WWII. The other is, well, timeless. First, if it’s difficult we do it immediately; if it’s impossible it takes a little longer. Second, the first one to raise a fist is the one who has run out of ideas. Then carry those requirements into the ballot box.
,,,”“I’m a Democrat and I am here to save democracy.””…
Brilliant, Absolutely Brilliant! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Kudos JT
You have got to be kidding me JT? The headline, so dramatic.The pictures, oooooh.
Coming from the guy that testified that a Biden impeachment inquiry should be started because…Oh wait, I’m sure we are going to find out any day now as the committee submits articles of impeachment to the full house. Any day now…
How’s that impeachment against Biden going JT?
Like you said, he gave his opinion in his testimony. He is not a voting member of the committee.
Went just as i should retard. Half the country thinks Biden is a crook. Mission accomplished.
Sit and stew.
*it
Begs the question : what is wrong with the other half?
The Democrats have certainly succeeded in one thing: cement in the public psyche that America is a “democracy.” So much easier to control the population with narratives depending on “majority rules.”
Much as I appreciate the good Professor’s erudite analysis, even this man, a foremost scholar in Constitutional jurisprudence, succumbs to writing an article on “democracy” without ever uttering the word “republic.”
One leads to the tyranny of the many, the other protects the rights of the individual FROM such tyranny. Not a minor distinction.
I am but a humble grandmother, continually trying to learn from those of with experience in different disciplines, but it seems to me this is an enormous distinction that cannot be overemphasized at any point in time, but most especially now.
Thus the attempts in several states to award the state’s electoral college delegates to the national winner of the popular vote. In doing so they disenfranchise the state’s voters.
Granny, if you notice he notes ‘democracy’ with a small ‘d’ rather than a capital. To me democracy is more in line with the general concept rather than a notation of what the country is, ie the Democratic country of ….. vs the Republic of….. When the libs use it it is usually with a small ‘d’, the whole concept of democracy will be upended etc. Just my opinion from a fellow Granny.
With regard to the power to control information, the FBI has come out with a new stunt. They have reified Murder Memorabilia to a neologism of their own invention & claimed complete automatic control over it. They are now calling it “Legacy Tokens.”
https://tennesseestar.com/justice/fbi-memo-on-protection-of-legacy-tokens-sent-to-nashville-police-in-may-2023-opposed-release-of-covenant-killer-documents-cited-destruction-precedent/tpappert/2024/06/05/
Did professor Turley forget about what happened after Trump’s felony conviction?
The column right after Trump’s guilty verdict produced well over 600 comments, mostly about the fall of democracy and the U.S. turning into a banana republic. Calls for civil war or threats to the judge and the DA were rampant. Also the familiar rantings about democracy being in danger because trump’s trial was…unfair and the need to ‘right’ that injustice because our democracy is…gone. All the hyperbole and clutching of pearls coming from the right was no different than democrats own alarmist rhetoric. The difference is democrats have a valid reason. Republicans are obliviously part of the problem.
Turley says, “ The most obvious threats today to the democratic system are coming from the left, not the right.”
Far from it. Right after Trump’s conviction calls for prosecution of the judge and the DA and democrats in general were rampant and quixotic. Because apparently holding someone accountable to the law is…communism or Marxism because people like Trump are too special to be tried in court. He’s above reproach because he is….what? Not wrong. Completely innocent? No. He was caught breaking the law and through our system of justice he was found guilty by a jury. Republicans have been wanting to find president Biden guilty of something purely out of spite for investigating or holding Trump accountable for actions he committed. So far republicans have not been able to find any evidence of an impeachable offense or a crime against President Biden. But they have already committed to their base that they will continue to fish for something so that they can finally find him guilty of something because…Trump has been found guilty. Trump is a convicted felon. He was afforded every opportunity to defend himself and his lawyers failed to convince a jury that Trump is innocent. Bummer. Democracy is indeed in a perilous position because of Trump. He’s promised revenge and promised to appoint an AG that will do his bidding so he can go after Biden and anyone else who “did him wrong” instead of focusing on the country and the economy. He is going to spend all his time seeking vengeance if he gets elected. But that is still a big if.
Except…the calls from the Right about “threats to our legal system” were produced by the spectacle of a presidential candidate being hauled into a partisan courtroom by a prosecutor who ran on a platform of “I’m going to get Trump” and consisting of a large number of twists to the system that looked unfair or at least usual to most legal observers. If you are actually getting lawfare used against you, isn’t it appropriate to complain about it?
On the other hand, the large number of “threats to our democracy” being bandied about by the left are theoretical. If one side is literally taking the other off the ballot because they are worried about what they might do, which side is wrong?
Bragg may have said he was “going to get Trump”. But that does not mean he did solely because he wanted to. He had evidence to back up his assertion. Trump is at fault here too because he did commit the crime he was accused of and he was indeed found guilty on all counts. If he was innocent as he claims he should have successfully defended himself in court. But we know that was not the case. His lawyers failed to convince the jury Trump was not guilty.
The only reason it “appears” he got an unfair trial is because Trump thinks it’s always unfair when he’s held accountable for his own actions and behavior. It’s unfair because things like that are not supposed to happen to people like him. That’s his attitude. He does not believe he should be subject to the same treatment everyone else gets because he’s rich, he’s Trump, or because he’s a former president. Trump is the kind of person that if he were stopped for speeding he would be threatening the officer who pulled him over and demand he be let go because he’s too important to be stopped by the police. That those kinds of petty infractions are beneath him. He’s that kind of guy.
Those nice young black men in 1960’s Alabama all got fair trials too. Bummer that they just couldn’t convince those juries of their innocence.
Check the calendar, it’s 2024. And if you are concerned about past injustices, why are you not concerned about current ones?
I am always concerned about injustice, especially when the legal system is used as weapon against your enemies
Half of those comments were you, fvcktard
“No no no”—-svelaz George
What crime did Donald Trump commit? Both Alvin Bragg and Judge Merchan have failed to articulate any crime. Trump didn’t commit any of the crimes for which he was convicted. No New York state or federal election laws were violated. Bradley Smith, a witness from the FEC was going to claim no federal election law was violated but Merchan would not allow his testimony.
So, I’ll ask you again, what law did he break or what crime did he commit??
Trump committed 34 felonies. The crimes were falsification of business records in the first degree. That law was violated 34 times.
What a ridiculous response George! All you did was regurgitate the Democrats’ talking points! So I’ll ask you once again, which New York laws did he break or what crimes did Donald Trump commit?
BE VERY SPECIFIC THIS TIME AROUND SINCE YOU SEEM TO KNOW NEW YORK LAW SO WELL!!
No, a jury convicted trump of 34 counts. That is a fact. You may disagree on his guilt or innocence but to call trumps conviction on 34 counts a democratic taking point? No, it is a fact. But at this point in time I do not expect trump supporters to understand what a fact is if it hit them on the side of the head. You have been lied to so many times by your orange god. He is not a god, he is not a decent human being, he is now a criminal having been convicted of a felony by a jury. Again, disagree if you want about the outcome, the FACT is he is a convicted felon. Your cult leader needs your money.
New York Penal Law § 175.10: Falsifying business records in the first degree
The law he broke,
New York Penal Law § 175.10: Falsifying business records in the first degree
That is a misdemeanor that had the SOL tolled.
No, it’s’ a felony. Falsification of business records in the first degree is a felony according to NY law.
Copy and paste
Oh they’ve articulated it. The problem is that it’s not clear what is illegal about any of it. Or for that matter, how it then morphed into a felony when tied to a state election violation. The crime of “falsifying” business records sounds ominous but without context, it sounds a little like “driving while black”. Everyone seems to acknowledge that paying NDAs is perfectly legal, even those paid by your lawyer, even to porn stars that are trying to extort money from you. I know, there will be the usual cadre of board trolls that will come out and say, but the payment wasn’t a “legal expense”, (as if there’s a crystal clear definition for that) and THAT’S why its a crime. Maybe it was a legal expense or maybe it was a misc. expense, or maybe it wasn’t labeled as anything at all. No one seems to be able, or willing, to explain to us all how this payment could have or should have been made legally. That is one reason that this SOL’d misdemeanor is never prosecuted on its own.
It had nothing to do with paying NDA’s. Zero. The crime was falsifying business records by intentionally labeling legal expenses when they were not. Charging someone for falsifying business records in the first degree requires that is done to conceal another crime.
§ 175.10:
A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree when he commits the crime of falsifying business records in the second degree, and when his intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.
To intent to defraud was to aid his election campaign by concealing the nature of the payments as “legal expenses” when they were not. They were reimbursements. That’s what made them into a first degree felony according to NY state law.
You put “did him wrong” in quotes. Could you provide a link to a direct quote where he “promised revenge and promised to appoint an AG that will do his bidding so he can go after Biden and anyone else who “did him wrong””?
New George Stalin-type actions cause sensible people to be upset. You don’t know who Stalin is or what he did, so you are happy all day sucking your thumb in bed.
The democrats will continue to rule as they do with the help of some republicans until a strong outsider arrives and understands their game. I think President Trump came to office thinking they played by the rule book (constitution) only to find a small group of republicans saw things that way. I don’t believe he’ll make that mistake again if given another opportunity?
There is a confrontation brewing in this country that few are actually acknowledging. It is born of the horrific corruption of our election process reinforced by the actions of the Left using the power they obtained through that corruption. The People are outraged. The People are frustrated. The People see no option other than disregarding the moral and ethical high road and engaging in the same gutter warfare the Progressive Left has employed since 2008. This sentiment is growing. It now has a focal point. The judicial warfare used against Donald Trump, and the subsequent innuendo attacks by the media on him and his supporters, has left half of the country feeling that they have no option other than gutter warfare. These millions feel betrayed by the Law. To them the Law is the enemy of Justice and no longer deserving of respect or obedience. America is in a dangerous place. The gift of the Progressive Left, its acolytes and its apologists is the very real possibility that Revolution is now a viable option for the disenfranchised and politically abused.
Democrats/Elites want Life time control of everything including your lives. They have a two-class system, the Elites and then the rest, force you to live in city, no cars except may be EV’s, no meat etc. They are Marxist. Their democracy is only for Dem leaders. Democracy is in danger if Biden wins again
Bingo! The Democrats thrive on making people fearful about lies: losing democracy, climate change, COVID are but three examples.
…..making people fearful…..
Plato wrote as such in The Republic. The photo of Hillary Clinton brings to mind Plato’s words on tyrants.
The Republic , By Plato, Book IX
And is not this the sort of prison in which the tyrant will be bound –he who being by nature such as we have described, is full of all sorts of fears and lusts? ….
And amid evils such as these will not he who is ill-governed in his own person –the tyrannical man, I mean –whom you just now decided to be the most miserable of all –will not he be yet more miserable when, instead of leading a private life, he is constrained by fortune to be a public tyrant? He has to be master of others when he is not master of himself: he is like a diseased or paralytic man who is compelled to pass his life, not in retirement, but fighting and combating with other men. …
He who is the real tyrant, whatever men may think, is the real slave, and is obliged to practise the greatest adulation and servility, and to be the flatterer of the vilest of mankind. He has desires which he is utterly unable to satisfy, and has more wants than any one, and is truly poor, if you know how to inspect the whole soul of him: all his life long he is beset with fear and is full of convulsions, and distractions, even as the State which he resembles: and surely the resemblance holds?
Very true, he said.
Moreover, as we were saying before, he grows worse from having power: he becomes and is of necessity more jealous, more faithless, more unjust, more friendless, more impious, than he was at first; he is the purveyor and cherisher of every sort of vice, and the consequence is that he is supremely miserable, and that he makes everybody else as miserable as himself.
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.10.ix.html
Aren’t Trump supporters being made fearful about woke stuff, immigrants, taxes, losing their “freedoms and liberties” because…..?
All that talk about communists, Marxists, socialist Medicine, woke indoctrination, transgendered individuals skulking in bathrooms, the gay agenda, etc, etc, etc.
Who is peddling fear? The right has been doing that for decades. Because it’s effective.
Your position might be stronger if you can tell us all why liberal school districts seem to have such a perverse interest in promoting drag queen story hour.
Or why drag queens are so interested in performing story hours in front of small children.
EconIsEasy,
Is it really fearmongering if it is a fact as evidence by our leftist friends promoting not only drag queen story hour in front of small children, but drag shows in front of small children?
Supporting pornography in elementary schools.
The removal of health body organs or chemical castration, calling it “gender affirming care,” when it is anything but care and call it what it is, mutilation.
Passing laws to get the state in between a parent and their children, because the state knows best.
Millions of illegals taking resources away from American citizens, so much so, blacks in Chicago are organizing and even suing the city for coddling the illegals while ignoring them for decades.
It is not fearmongering when it is reality on full display for all to see.
Upstatefarmer,
You’re displaying the fear mongering that pervades the right. Drag queen story telling is nothing new. It’s been done for a long time. Not all drag shows are sexual. Parents who know the difference make the decision to let their children attend. Why would that a concern to you or anyone else not wanting to attend those events?
“ Supporting pornography in elementary schools.”
There’s no pornography in elementary schools. Those claims come from organizations like Mom’s for Liberty who don’t really read the books they oppose. They just pick and choose the lines in books to portray them as such. Plus those books are usually in high schools or public libraries. Parents can tell librarians which books their children cannot check out.
“ The removal of health body organs or chemical castration, calling it “gender affirming care,” when it is anything but care and call it what it is, mutilation.”
No such things occur. Sex changes on minors is extremely rare and only when consulted by parents and doctors. Parental rights are just that parental rights. No the state’s business or yours. I thought conservatives were against state involvement in parent decisions.
It is fear mongering when the majority of the things you fear are not true or wild exaggerations.
No drag queen story hour has not been around a long time
It has not been that long that transsexuallity has even been legal
We can celebrate that it is
But let’s not pretend that transsexuals were openly reading to children for generations
Regardless we do not sexualize Children
People who even engage in sexual discussions with children STILL end up in jail
As they should
The strongest predictor of predatory sexual behavior as an adult is being the victim of that behavior as a child
We can discuss leaving these things to parents
When those of you on the left actually leave things to parents
Get government out of schools
And parents get to decide whether there kids need drag queen story hour or more math
I would bet that 99% of parents pick 3Rs
George your claims are bogus
Sex changes in children are way too numerous and done way too rapidly
With negligible consideration of the real problems
Teens are bombarded by hormones that they have no understanding of or experience with
This is a dangerous time of their lives and they make disproportionately large major mistakes
The highest rates of violence are teens
The highest rates of suicide
Drug or alcohol abuse in teens leads to life long problems
There are reasons that we do not allow teens to make lots of life altering decisions
Because very large numbers of them do so badly
Nearly all cases of gender disphoria resolve by early 20s and in almost all cases they turn out to be gay not trans
For those few who do not resolve
As adults they can now choose for themselves
I would separately note that sex can be objectively determined for 99.999% of people
Orientation can not
There is no genetic test for gay or trans
There is no objective standard
Maybe there is a biological basis or maybe it is a choice
We do not know
I am ok with either
But the law treats choices differently from immutable attributes
We bar discrimination based on immutable attributes
We allow it for choices
George if you want to be treated as credible
Check your argument before you post
You have made several false claims and these undermine the rest of your argument
Why is it that so many trump supporters pay no attention to the msm or democrats?
Because you lied about the collusion delusion
You lied about the hunter Biden laptop
You are lying about the economy right now
You are lying about energy
And the borders and crime
You have lied about j6
How is it that trump supporters can reject so many things those on the left take as proven ?
Because you have been caught in so many lies
Only a few percent of Americans are willing to cheat to win an election
But 2/3 of those with advanced degrees from the best universities have self reported as willing to cheat in an election to get the right outcome
Of course republicans beleive you cheated in 2020
You cheated in 2012 (Benghazi)
2016 the collusion delusion
2020 mass ballot harvesting ignoring the law and censorsing the truth about Covid and the bidens
Then you lied about j6
And now you are using politically weaponized law fare
Why would people believe you would commit other forms of election fraud
Falsus In Unum Falsus in omnibus
What is wrong with drag queen story hour? Kids don’t care. All they see is a fun way to have books read.
Parents who are opposed to it can simply not let their kids attend the events.
George, do you know what Marxism is? Of course not. You used to talk a lot about CRT but didn’t know much about it: big mouth, tiny brain.
The epidemic of anxiety rampaging through the country alflicts
The young
Women
The left
Trump supporters are not fearful
They are
“Mad as hell and not going to take this anymore”
You have to be kidding me. The Demo lies?
And how many lies has trump spewed? I sure hope you drank your bleach when COVID hit. How about his saying that he did’t say lock her up? And where exactly is the evidence of voter fraud from 2020?
You live in an alternate universe from reality. Look around, How many trump lawyers have plead guilty? How many have lost their license?
Speaking of bleach, didn’t Hillary use Bleach Bit as one of the methods to destroy her computer records.? And, oh by the way, President Trump did NOT prosecute her when he was the president.
“How many trump lawyers have plead guilty? How many have lost their license?”
How many?
You don’t know, do you, ignorant fvck
I suppose its telling that the best “Trump lie” you can come up with is a statement that Trump never made. He never use the word bleach and never said anyone should drink anything. But keep trying, I’ve hear it said that the more times you keep telling a lie, the easier it is for you believe…
In case anyone is interested in the facts, here’s Trump’s full comment:
“A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposedly we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. (To Bryan) And I think you said you’re going to test that, too. Sounds interesting, right?”
He continued.
“And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful.”
In a functioning democratic republic voting should take place on one day with voter ID on preferably paper ballots. Note how many photos of voting around the world show voters putting folded paper into the ballot box. Voting early, as previously mentioned, means your vote may be cast for a dead or withdrawn candidate. Can’t get that vote back to recast.
By the way, whatever happened to “party bosses”, the kind that told Woodrow Wilson to drop the mistress
before he was considered for nomination? The Dems – or Dumbocrats – must be functioning without a “boss”
to permit a treasonous ancient like Biden to represent the party. Unfortunately, the Repewblicans aren’t much
better. The down ticket in both parties is as much or more important that the tottering tops.
If you define democracy as electoral competition where the voters dictate the terms and priorities of the campaign infospace — i.e., where the campaigns ONLY compete based on presenting policy alternatives on the public’s concerns — that means they abstain from games to tilt the outcome by:
– gerrymandering
– registering and de-registering voters
– making the act of voting easier or harder depending on how they think you’ll vote
– pressuring and cajoling, starting by a text asking who you plan to vote for
– ad hominem attacks of opponents to arouse emotions and distract from policy choices
– deceitful infowarfare (duping the voters, like Lee Atwood’s famous push telephone poll in 2000)
– refusing to take up policy positions, or having it both ways
– money handouts and promises (e.g., college loan forgiveness)
Neither major party is willing to participate in democracy as per this definition. They are both corrupt, equally self-serving manipulators when it comes to democracy, constantly gaming the system to win rather than entrusting the voters with the power to set the course and choose the policies. The parties have gotten way too powerful. Both aspire to de facto one-party dominance. Neither value constructive criticism from the opposition.
We have drifted very far from the New England town hall style of direct democracy.
Beware claims to “uphold democracy” absent a definition of what democracy entails, specifically the role and power of ordinary people in one..
You can define democracy however you want
Or you can define it as it has been for three centuries or two millennia take your pick
And then others will be able to understand what you write
There is no objectively correct means to set legislative districts
If you believe that is wrong
Change the constitution
Otherwise you are just ranting because you do not like an outcome
If you truly have an actually better way
Changing the constitution will be easy
Require government issued photo if that proves citizenship and current residence and you do not need voter registration
The left likes to fixate on motor voter laws
Let’s get rid of registration entirely
Get a drivers license or state id
Require that license to identify citizenship
And just show up with us to vote
No voter registration
No databases
No dead people voting
”pressuring and cajoling, starting by a text asking who you plan to vote for”
Called free speech and it is a right in a democracy ”ad hominem attacks of opponents to arouse emotions and distract from policy choices”
Again free speech
Which is of critical importance
“deceitful infowarfare (duping the voters, like Lee Atwood’s famous push telephone poll in 2000)”
Again free speech
Regardless a push poll can get the results you want out of a poll sometimes
It has at best a tiny impact on the election ”refusing to take up policy positions, or having it both ways”
Free speech
If you can not get answers from a candidate
Do not vote for them
If enough people refuse
You will get the answers you want ”money handouts and promises (e.g., college loan forgiveness)”
Politicians can promise anything
What matters is that their power to keep promises is constrained by the constitution
Lee Atwater died in 1991
Lee Atwood was an engineer and died in 1999
The “end of Democracy” began in 2008. It accelerated in 2016 with the plot to “take out Trump” begun by the Clinton campaign and Hillary Clinton herself. When they still lost the election in 2017, the destruction of the Constitutional Republic took full hold with riots, the release of the impeachment hoaxes, then the very fraudulent election cycles of 2020 and 2022. The truth of which is just now beginning to be uncovered by independent journalist on Twitter (X) and Substack. The persecutions and imprisonment of Constitutional Republicans is the desperate attempt to squash the opposition to Marxism and Communism. That is about were we are today in the United States.
Another Step…all elections…like virtually every country in the world…1 day, in person, with ID
NJ just voted for a Democrat Representative who died 2 Months ago!
basic logic
Fascists believe in the central control and absolute power of the state and large businesses
Democrats believe in the Absolute power of the state and large business
Democrats are Fascists fighting a Civil War. Democrats have BLM, antifa, they USE government to destroy Opponents
Republicans believe in small government and freedom,,,,sound like 1930’s Fascists?
Democrats and 1930’s European Fascists USED propganda and Millions of people VOTED for them!
We need to jail Criminal Democrats from across government by the 1000’s…this is a CIVIL WAR. Democrats started BOTH Civil Wars in America!
First Step is to Defund Democrats….cut 50% of Federal Spending, end all aid to cities, states, non-profits and colleges! Take Away the Central POWER!!!!