UNDERMINING POPULAR ELECTIONS

A DANGEROUS TREND: THE DELEGITIMIZATION OF POPULAR ELECTIONS

September 16, 2018 (Posted 11-10-18)

There seems to be a popular and almost world-wide reaction in western democracies  to legitimate elections—but only those the national establishment do not like.  When the results of an election of a referendum finds support for policies or candidates the often corrupt and “long in tooth establishment” does not support they use all the power in the establishment arsenal to delegitimize the candidate or avoid the manifest will of the people. 

In the USA the Democrats, the deep state, the old guard GOP, and their facilitators in the media and “entertainment” industry are attempting to hound out of office a legitimately elected President (who took 30 out of the 50 states in the Electoral College) but who does not obediently and slavishly hew to the “party line”.  

While in the UK, a legitimate referendum on EU membership surprised the old guard establishment with a solid vote to exit the EU.  After nearly two years of stalling and “study” —-the talk today out of Westminster is a proposal to set forth another referendum—-because the establishment types do not like the results of the first one.  

In both cases the —so-called democracies—are undermining the very democratic principles that they so often claim to cherish and support.  The policies these ‘democrats” are  espousing  more closely resemble dictatorships and tin pot banana republics where democracy is only window dressing.  Then there are the policies of the Chinese Communists—who claim to have “democratic” elections too.  But in China the party big-wigs reserve for themselves the power to choose the candidates for election.  In those circumstances the Chinese political elites reassure the voters: “We choose the candidates then you can have your “free and democratic vote”.  Is this the way our vaunted western democracies are headed?.  

The Democrats and their facilitators in the popular media are playing a dangerous game.  In their attempts at “resistance” they, like the mother cleaning the proverbial baby bathtub are mindlessly throwing the cherished infant  out with the bath water.  The Democrats are so focused on turning Trump out of office, (by investigations, or impeachment) they would tear up our entire Constitutional democratic system to rid themselves of Mr. Trump—a legitimately and democratically elected President.  

They forget that Mr. Trump is only a temporary occupant of the Oval Office.  His term will run its course.  The actions of the  Democrats and their minions in the media and Hollywood are toying with actions which will undermine our nation’s confidence in the “We the People” part of our Constitution, and in the legitimacy of our free elections.  They would tear down the national edifice to prop up one of their own. And after setting these precedents how will they react when in another election, perhaps with a Democrat in office, the other side “resists” too.  

They are setting the stage for chaos and disaster.