{"id":1478898,"date":"2024-07-23T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1478898"},"modified":"2024-07-23T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T21:05:00","slug":"the-party-of-democracy-will-now-choose-your-candidate-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-party-of-democracy-will-now-choose-your-candidate-for-you\/1478898\/","title":{"rendered":"The Party Of ‘Democracy” Will Now Choose Your Candidate For You"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Party Of ‘Democracy” Will Now Choose Your Candidate For You<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

On Sunday, July 21, President Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential campaign via a text-only post on Twitter\/X.<\/p>\n

Less than an hour later, Biden – also<\/em>\u00a0via a text-only post on Twitter\/X – endorsed vice president Kamala Harris for the presidency.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thus, in just a few minutes, the ruling party in Washington completely erased the primary election process from one of the country\u2019s major parties.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is, the same Democratic party that tells us it is the party of \u201cdemocracy\u201d just completely cut ordinary voters out of the selection process for the Democratic nominee.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Instead, the Democratic nominee in 2024 will be chosen by a small group of elite party insiders.<\/strong> We\u2019re told there will be an \u201copen convention\u201d in Chicago to choose the nominee, but all that means is that that there is no pre-determined nominee going into the convention. In any case, however, the nominee will be chosen by delegates and superdelegates (i.e., wealthy party elites like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama) behind closed doors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Democratic party\u2019s efforts to circumvent the primary process <\/strong>are quite remarkable for a ruling coalition that lectured the general public endlessly in 2020 about how Donald Trump was allegedly a \u201cthreat to democracy\u201d and how \u201cdemocracy is on the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, this is what we\u2019ve come to expect from political elites who use the term \u201cdemocracy\u201d as a propaganda term. For these people, the term has no objective meaning, it just means \u201csomething we like.\u201d \u201cAnti-democratic,\u201d in contrast, just means \u201csomething we\u00a0don\u2019t<\/em>\u00a0like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreover, its use as a propaganda term can be seen in the way that \u201cdemocracy\u201d is used in the same way as \u201crevolutionary\u201d by Marxist regimes. <\/strong>In such cases \u201crevolutionary\u201d is code for \u201cin favor of the ruling elites\u201d and \u201csomething we like.\u201d Similarly, the opposite of \u201cdemocracy\u201d in a Marxist regime is \u201ccounterrevolutionary\u201d or \u201cbourgeois.\u201d Those terms were essentially code for \u201cagainst the ruling party\u201d and \u201cthing we don\u2019t like.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Such terms have no actual content in the usual sense of a word. \u00a0Thus, the term \u201cdemocracy\u201d simply means \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cnot democratic\u201d means \u201cevil.\u201d<\/p>\n

For example, President Joe Biden delivered two major\u00a0speeches<\/a>\u00a0in 2022 on how \u201cdemocracy\u201d will supposedly be abolished if his opponents win.<\/strong>\u00a0In November of that year, former president Barack Obama solemnly intoned that if Republicans win in Arizona, \u201cdemocracy as we know it may not survive<\/a>.\u201d This is repeated among the party\u2019s media allies. One writer at\u00a0Salon<\/em>\u00a0chastised voters for daring to let their votes be influenced by economic concerns when \u201cdemocracy is under threat<\/a>.\u201d One\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0headline\u00a0bemoaned<\/a>\u00a0the apparent reality that voters don\u2019t seem interested in \u201csaving democracy\u201d when it\u2019s supposedly all so clear that \u201cdemocracy is in peril.\u201d At no point in these jeremiads is it ever explained how a vote for the out-of-favor candidate will actually end elections or universal suffrage or any other event or institution associated with democracy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Biden\u2019s September 2022 speech in Philadelphia, he went on for twenty minutes about an imagined threat to democracy, without ever actually defining what democracy is.<\/strong> One was reminded of Fidel Castro howling in his multi-hour speeches about the threat to \u201cthe revolution\u201d from insidious imperialists and counterrevolutionaries\u2014by which he meant anyone who opposed his regime. The term \u201crevolutionary\u201d had no connection to actual revolution in this context. It simply meant \u201csomething my regime likes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the elites have gone to great lengths to ensure that no actual democracy\u2014in the technical or traditional sense\u2014has taken place in the nomination process. The Democratic Party made it clear that it would not allow any presidential hopefuls to challenge Biden to a debate. Early Democratic challengers Congressman Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson were told to get lost. The most significant challenger within the party, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was effectively expelled from the party in October 2023. He was forced to declare his candidacy as an independent candidate soon after.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, after denying Democratic voters the chance to vote on Kennedy or anyone else, the party has now also denied the voters the chance to vote on Harris or whoever else the party elites will decide is the nominee in 2024.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mention any of this to burnish the reputation of the Republican Party, by the way. Those of us who remember the Ron Paul campaigns in 2008 and 2012 remember how the GOP conspired to torpedo his campaign, going so far as to change the convention rules, ex post facto, to deny Paul a prime-time speaking position and to disenfranchise his delegates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet, it\u2019s not the GOP that\u2019s claiming to be the guardian of the\u00a0vox populi<\/em>\u00a0while conspiring to undermine that\u00a0vox<\/em>\u00a0at every turn.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rather, the alleged protectors of democracy carry on the tradition of redefining the term \u201cdemocracy\u201d to serve the interests of the elites whenever it suits their purposes. We see this not only in America, but globally. Any time the \u201cwrong\u201d people win an election\u2014\u201dwrong\u201d according to global elites\u2014the outcome of the election is declared a \u201cthreat to democracy.\u201d We see this repeatedly in European politics where \u201cdemocracy\u201d is defined as support for the unelected European commission. German political elites, meanwhile, have repeatedly declared the rightwing AfD party a \u201cthreat to democracy\u201d because party members keep winning elections. In Latin America, \u201cdemocracy\u201d means to support the social-democratic left. When rightwing Jair Bolsonaro was elected in Brazil, that was denounced as anti-democratic. When leftwing Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff was impeached by a democratically elected legislature, that was\u00a0denounced<\/a>\u00a0as an anti-democratic coup. Democratically elected Javier Milei was denounced by uber-establishment magazine\u00a0The Economist<\/em>\u00a0as \u201ca danger for democracy<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is now clear that to be in favor of democracy in 2024 is to support whatever the ruling party elites want you to support.\u00a0To be \u201cpro-democracy\u201d now apparently means to vote for the candidate selected\u00a0for you\u00a0by party elites in secret meetings. According to the ruling elites, in a true \u201cdemocracy,\u201d there\u2019s no voting allowed.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 07\/23\/2024 – 13:05<\/span><\/p>\n

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