If you repeat a word too much, it loses its meaning. “Liberal democracy” is like that. Its boosters simply assume everyone knows what it is, what it means, and why it’s good.
Republicans favor voter ID laws and disfavor ballot harvesting, which allows third parties to collect ballots and deliver them to polling places, and anything that happens between point A and point B is none of your damn business.
Under Our Democracy™ precautions against fraud are anti-democratic while weakening precautions is pro-democracy.
Accordingly, three law professors find a conspiracy against democracy in the Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “It is not a coincidence that the court is making our democracy less democratic at the very moment it is returning the issue of abortion to the political process (in the name of democracy),” Leah Litman, Melissa Murray, and Kate Shaw argue in the Washington Post.
And if the Court had gone the other way and kept these contentious questions out of the political realm? That’s Our Democracy™ at its finest.
Our Democracy™, as its boosters on the Left (too often abetted by the establishment Right) like to call it, is not really a “democracy” in the traditional sense of the word. It is certainly nothing like the republican form of government the Constitution guaranteed to the people and the several states. Instead, Our Democracy™ is anything that advances the policies progressives prefer this week.
H. L. Mencken, writing nearly a century ago, observed that democracy tends to be “self-devouring.”
“One cannot observe [democracy] objectively without being impressed by its curious distrust of itself—its apparently ineradicable tendency to abandon its whole philosophy at the first sign of strain,” he wrote.
So it is now, as the highest court in the land repeatedly and urgently exhorts the people’s representatives to stop punting their responsibilities to the courts and the executive branch and do their jobs.
That would require members to put their careers on the line, however, and everyone knows the first rule of politics is claim credit and avoid blame.
After decades of successfully using the courts to bypass tough legislative fights, progressives are appalled that their own tactics have been turned against them to restore constitutional government. It’s almost as though, at their core, “democrats” aren’t really democrats and “democracy” and “progress” are just euphemisms for the exercise of raw power.
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