(01-04-2024, 05:48 PM)CoyoteAngel Wrote: And now they are keeping Trump off the ballot, and it's extending to other Republicans: i.e Rick Scott in his state.
They are not even pretending anymore.
They are saving our democracy tho'.
Dangerous times.
Interesting way to "save democracy", isn't it? Way back when, when I took high school civics, "democracy" was defined as the system whereby people governed themselves, usually through electing representatives of their choosing, but always by exercising their own vote. Now that vote is being taken away from them by unelected bureaucrats, and whom they are "allowed" to vote for, well, that choice is being taken from the hands of the People.
In what world is the removal of voting choices defined as "our democracy"?
Clown World, that's what world.
In the old, pre-Clown World days, such actions would have been defined as "disenfranchisement", and back then were seen as a BAD thing... and sometimes involved the employment of a short rope and a tall lamp-post.
Last election cycle, they just flat out stole people's votes and stuffed ballot boxes to achieve their ends of disenfranchisement of the populace. That created a big uproar, however, so now it seems they are taking a different tack, hand-picking who folks will be "allowed" to vote for, thus funneling the vote to their desired outcome... which is a lot like funneling cattle through the chute into the stockyards at the slaughter house.
Are we going to allow that to stand? Only time will tell.
Who needs to allow those pesky peasants to have a vote in a "democracy"? After all, a free vote with free choices among the peasantry has potential to endanger the hegemony of the self-appointed "elites", and we simply can't have that in a "democracy". Just ask the leaderships of ANY "Democratic People's Republic of... (fill in the blank here)" and they will tell you - the People cannot be allowed free choices. That could lead to undesirable outcomes like self-rule, liberty, and whatnot! Let them eat cake!
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ETA: Do they even teach high school civics any more? It would seem a dangerous thing to teach kids how the government is supposed to work, and how to think for themselves about it. That could set a dangerous precedent - much safer for the "elites" to just indoctrinate them, and tell them what to think instead of how to think! It works for the likes of Cuba, China, North Korea, and Venezuela, no?
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