Charles M. Blow: The Republican Party Is the Anti-Democracy Party
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/opinion/republican-party-anti-democracy.htmlNo paywall
https://archive.ph/fFzjm
The word “democracy” never appears in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution.
However, democracy is central to the modern concept of America.
The founders seemed to prefer calling the burgeoning country a Republic rather than a democracy. Many were opposed to direct democracy and the possibility that demagogues could corrupt it or mob rule could overtake it. They instead designed a representative government in which “the people” would elect representatives who would make the laws and conduct the governance.
The problem, or course, was that their definition of “the people” was largely limited to wealthy white men, enslavers among them.
Over the years, America has expanded the definition of “the people” to include more Americans, but conservatives have resisted the expansion at every turn. And now, they are trying to drag the country backward, to pare down the ranks of those who can vote and to deny or invalidate elections in which voting populations, not yet pared down enough, deliver results with which they disagree.
We keep hearing people say that candidates, like some of the ones competing in Tuesday’s primaries, threaten our democracy. We heard during the Jan. 6 hearings about threats to our democracy. We have heard for years that Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy.
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They have no political platform.
The only ideology they have left is plutocracy, racism (white nationalism), and government-imposed cruelty.
They have successfully indoctrinated 3 generations into an irrational, angry, paranoid, hate-filled cult; abetted
by a propaganda machine and a neutered media.
Henceforth, all they need to do is to oppose "the democratic party" and anything which the democrats would like to
accomplish in order to win votes.
They don't want to accomplish anything which would help Americans; they are regressive and wish to destroy
anything which gets in the way of seizing total power.
You can't have total power in a democracy.
What they offer is a perversion of democracy -- a fraud and a con.
Trump and his facsimiles are the perfect salesmen for this vile product.
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