Democrats Continue To Turn On The Constitution

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The Federalist by David Harsanyi 9/3/2019

Sorry you're offended, but we don't live in a 'democracy'

The state isn’t here to give you everything you want—not even if what you want is extraordinarily popular with your fellow Americans.

This is, no doubt, disorientating for voters who grew up believing they live in a “democracy.” In reality, our un-democratic constitutional bulwarks temper the vagaries of the majority. “Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates,” James Madison quipped, “every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”

The left will mock you for making this obvious observation. Yet many progressives don’t seem to understand the distinction between united states and a united state. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, for instance, recently took some heat from conservatives for claiming that the “weirdest thing about the electoral college is the fact that if it wasn’t specifically in the Constitution for the presidency, it would be unconstitutional.”

Of course, there’s nothing “weird” about diffused democratic institutions. There is nothing weird about arguing for federalism. These should be the foundation for every policy debate. Every governing institution in the country, to some degree, is counter-majoritarian. Quite often, the counter-majoritarianism is the entire point. Hayes is under the impression that “one man, one vote” means every ballot needs to be plugged into a direct democracy, which is absurd.

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Time for a refresher course on The Constitution for all currently employed by the federal government, military or civilian.

I dare say most of these employees have either forgotten the oath they've taken to The Constitution, or were merely mouthing the words when they took the oath.

There are several annual requirements of federal employees, such as refreshers on safeguarding classified material. An annual reminder that The Constitution was designed to place limits on the federal government is IMO essential to those who wield the power of the federal government.