Did you watch the Harris-Trump “debate” – which was actually the Harris/Muir/Davis-Trump “debate”? I didn’t since I can’t stand hearing either Harris or Trump talk. I watched a baseball game instead. But I did read about it. What was interesting was that major media enthusiastically declared Harris the winner. However, she did not get a bump in the polls. In fact, Trump (the loser) went up a point. Interviews afterwards showed that the voters were not satisfied that Harris was asked few policy questions and that the moderators were clearly biased against Trump.
A question was asked about the failure of the Israelis and Hamas to reach a deal and that the administration has been unable to break the stalemate and “what would you do?” Harris is said to have endorsed the two state “solution” which both sides reject and Trump said that if he were president October 7 would not have happened. Trump should have said that the US has no business trying to broker a deal and that the Israelis are too smart to take seriously a State Department made up of bungling incompetents.
The op ed page of the September 13 edition of the Wall Street Journal had two interesting articles on our republican brand of democracy. Jonathan Turley has a piece detailing how leftist law professors are writing, and no doubt teaching, that the Supreme Court is a threat to democracy. The so-called threat involves Supreme Court decisions that protect the individual, minority factions and smaller states against the tyranny of the majority. A leftist professor calls this “limiting the power of the majority.” Thank goodness for that. One professor even stated that if the democrats have majorities in the House and Senate and the presidency, then they should take legislative steps to insure that the Republicans “will never win another election.” Now who exactly is the “threat to democracy?” This is frightening stuff. As any student of history will tell you, the majority is often more times than not on the wrong side of history. An America under mob rule would have total disregard for the rule of law and disintegrate as a nation. Some on the left want to trash the Constitution, abolish the Senate and remove all checks and balances on the executive. They of course are assuming that the democrats will forever win the popular vote for president. But like Harry Reid’s getting rid of the filibuster in order to get Obama judges confirmed, what goes around, resulting in the three Trump Supreme Court appointees.
The second article detailed eighteen defeats by the Biden Administration in the courts. Eighteen! These were examples of power grabs by the FCC, the Department of Education, the EPA, the FTC and the SEC. All were declared unconstitutional. Judges appointed by both republicans and democrats made the rulings illustrating how egregious were the administration’s dictates. Many of the suits were brought by the state republican AGs, who seem to be the only republicans taking the time to protect our rights. What I am curious about is whether without a constitution, how would the courts decide right and wrong and the limits of governmental power? The constitution is a rule book and without out it, do we revert to English Common Law with procedural remedies instead of substantive rights?
Again, the threat to democracy warning by the democrats is full of it. The rulings by the courts show that the Biden Administration disregard for the rule of law is itself a threat to democracy. Once more the only thing democratic that the democrats want is a popular vote for president. Nothing else. They do not want an authoritarian rule not a democratic one. If they are so keen on democracy, then let them put all of the mandates of this administration to a popular vote and see if the majority want boys in girls’ locker rooms, want all internal combustion engines to be banned, want solar farms in their communities and windmills offshore, want all fossil fuels outlawed and all the rest that this administration has tried to impose by edict.
The sign says “You cna’t fix stupid but you can vote it out” Not if the democrats have their way. Remember you may vote your way into socialism but you will have to shoot your way out.
Let them vote!
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