Preening Demagogues
Blather about democracy comes from those who believe in it the least.
by George Neumayr
February 10, 2021, 11:57 PM
The Democrats are casting themselves this week as the great custodians of democracy, chasing away the apostates in its temple. Never mind that the whole point of their partisan exercise in the Senate is to remove a democratic choice from the people. The Democrats remain in a panic over the possibility of Trump running again. The feverishness of that panic is a measure of their mistrust of the people and their preference for rule by the elite. The Democrats will let us know who we can and can’t vote for.
The “living constitution†sham of the Democrats is designed to take power out of the hands of the people and entrust it to a liberal elite.
Democrats who blather about democracy the most tend to believe in it the least. Just look at their decades-long support for judicial despotism, which consists of removing democratic choices from the people in the name of this or that invented liberal right. Empowering judges to wrest issues like abortion and gay marriage away from the people has been the exclusive province of the Democrats. During his presidential campaign, Joe Biden said that his ideal judge would display that anti-democratic streak. He or she would prioritize “rights†over democratic choice.
He openly called for judges who would legislate from the bench and defy the people for the sake of “rights†not even mentioned in the Constitution: “I would look to judges, potential nominees, they would have to acknowledge the fact that there are unenumerated rights that are nonetheless constitutional rights; they’re not mentioned by name in the Constitution.â€
This is the “living constitution†theory of the Democrats that kills the actual one. It is amusing to see them this week parading around as pensive originalists, after having spent years pushing the idea that the Constitution is really just a blank piece of paper on which the powerful, drawing upon nothing more than the “evolving†spirit of the age, can write whatever they want.
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