Biden’s Bogus ‘Summit for Democracy’
He is no position to lead the world toward it, given his own autocratic instincts.
by George Neumayr
December 9, 2021, 12:03 AM
Joe Biden is holding a virtual “summit for democracy” this week. It is the fulfillment of one of his campaign promises. He has long considered himself a great expert on the subject of democracy, even as he increasingly embraced the undemocratic elitism of his own party.
He says that he “fears” for democracy, as if his party is open to robust disagreements. The truth is the exact opposite. The Democrats celebrate undemocratic measures, such as Silicon Valley’s silencing of their political opponents. The Democrats are afraid of, not for, democracy. They seek to build a one-party state, free of “deplorables” — a state in which the most important decisions lie not in the hands of the people but in the hands of liberal judges and bureaucrats.
What animates him is not a desire for democracy but the acquisition of liberal power.
For Biden and company, “democracy” is just a euphemism for results that they like. If democracy fails to produce those results, liberals turn despotic. Their response to the people passing pro-life laws, for example, is to call for court-packing.
So it is no surprise that Biden has invited undemocratic countries that he likes to his “summit for democracy” while withholding an invitation from Hungary, a democracy that he dislikes. Biden’s rhetoric about “perils” to democracy conceals his real agenda: the promotion of leftism at the expense of democracy. Biden won’t say a word at his summit about the left-wing autocracies that the Democrats have long envied and seek to replicate in the United States.
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