Good day all. The New York Times, or as I like to call it, the New York Slimes, used to be a generally objective and reliable source of news. These days, it’s considered to be nothing more then a propaganda sheet for the Progressive Liberal Democrat Party. Their contempt for the average American doesn’t just bleed into their news and opinion pieces, it floods into them.
Recently the New York Slime demonstrated their contempt for everyone with an Op-Ed that declared that “Elections are bad for Democracy.” Here are the details from the Federalist:
The New York Times published an op-ed this week declaring elections are “bad for democracy.”
“[W]e might be better off eliminating elections altogether,” argued Adam Grant, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, in the piece, which subsequently had its headline changed from “Elections are Bad for Democracy” to “The Worst People Run for Office. It’s Time for a Better Way,” hours after publication following online mockery. Despite the new title, the message remained unchanged.
According to Grant, elections are counterproductive to democratic governance. Grant claimed that randomly chosen leaders would be more effective and cited ancient Greece as his prime example, as if ruling an ancient city-state were comparable to managing global affairs in the 21st century.
If you think that sounds anti-democratic, think again. The ancient Greeks invented democracy, and in Athens many government officials were selected through sortition — a random lottery from a pool of candidates. In the United States, we already use a version of a lottery to select jurors. What if we did the same with mayors, governors, legislators, justices and even presidents?
“When you know you’re picked at random, you don’t experience enough power to be corrupted by it,” Grant added. “Instead, you feel a heightened sense of responsibility: I did nothing to earn this, so I need to make sure I represent the group well.”
Well, I see we have another Ivory Tower Intellectual who has absolutely no clue at all about how anything works. I did a quick internet search and found his resume and photo. He really should look into getting professional pictures taken by people who, well, are professionals. They might be able to make him look less like someone who will eat your children. (No, I’m not going to post it here. There isn’t enough eye bleach made to take the sight away. Trust me on this)
While acknowledging random selection might “deprive us of the chance to select a leader with distinctive skills,” Grant was clear: “that’s a risk I’m willing to take.”
Well I’m not you progressive pinhead.
Grant made his “final” point that “voting also means no boundaries to gerrymander and no Electoral College to dispute.” In other words, no more objections to election results. Odd that this proposal would come two years after President Donald Trump raised concerns over how the 2020 presidential election was conducted instead of following Democrats’ objections in 2001, 2005, and 2017.
Well the answer to that is simple. He’s one of the moonbats who think the best leaders are Progressive Liberal Democrats and that if a Republican wins, it’s because he or she cheated. Of course, the last few years have seen a number of Democrats getting busted for election and voter fraud and only just a couple of Republicans. (All should go to the wall if proven guilty of course)
“Instead of questioning whether millions of ballots were counted accurately, we could watch the lottery live, just as we do with teams getting their lottery picks in the N.B.A. draft,” Grant wrote.
While I don’t pay any attention to sports, I know how that lottery works. It is only putting the teams in line for choosing the players they want to sign. It’s also not unusual for teams to trade that place in line, or trade their choices for a player to be named later. I don’t think this is what this idiot has in mind.
He warned against using elections “to roll the dice on the hopes of finding the best” candidates, as if the lottery system he proposes were not a way to “roll the dice” on who oversees one of the largest enterprises in human history: the federal government.
When you have an election, you get to look at those who are running and see how they’ve done things. Of course, that also requires an honest 4th Estate that isn’t acting like a 5th column for one side or the other. What this clown is doing is misquoting William F. Buckley. He once said:
I would rather be governed by the first 1,000 people listed in the phone book than by the faculty members from an Ivy League University.
Buckley, as I recall, was commenting on just how incompetent all the Ivy League graduates were, (In general), when it came to governing. People who attend these schools generally become elitists and consider everyone else to be beneath them intellectually. (Buckley went to Yale, so he was both one of these elitists and knew it)
The proposal to eliminate elections altogether for the sake of “democracy” further goes to show that “bad for democracy” means anything left-wing activists don’t like, from particular candidates to free speech, the Electoral College, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
The article goes on to report that other idiots on the New York Slimes Op-Ed page also like to call Republicans the ones who are a threat to democracy. In what passes for their minds, anyone who questions the validity of the elections is a “Denier.” Never mind that there are a lot of questions about the 2020 Tainted Election that people want answered.
Meanwhile leftists, who apparently have free rein to call for completely abolishing elections, have chastized any Republicans raising concerns about election administration as “election deniers.”
But Republicans aren’t the ones who are advocating to deny Americans free and fair elections in the name of “democracy.” Nor are they the ones who exploited lockdown-era panic measures to remove legal election safeguards and jeopardize confidence in American elections. It’s not elections that are “bad for democracy.” It’s the fight to eliminate them, whether by dismantling election laws or siccing the feds on the top political opponent of the incumbent regime.
First a few little details, The United States is NOT a Democracy. We are a Republic. We select our representatives who then handle the administration of the government. Direct Democracy, while it sounds nice, has some issues. It’s basically two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner. The Progressive Liberal Elite, such as this Adam Grant clown flat out do not trust the average person to make any decisions.
In what passes for their minds, the average person is uneducated, (Since they don’t have 15 degrees and work in Academia, or hold high level positions in government), racist, misogynistic and stupid. They believe that allowing the average person to vote is wrong since they can’t possibly know what is in their best interests. Only people like Adam Grant have that knowledge.
These are the idiots that are weaponizing the Justice system, and going after people’s children. They fail to see what their actions are actually doing, or for those that do, is causing them to double down on stupid. I’m certain that Grant is receiving all sorts of kudos from those in his circle.
I also don’t think he has a clue what everyone in the real world thinks about him and would be shocked to the point of fainting if someone came up and ripped him up one side and down the other verbally. I suspect he would scream like a little girl and run for his safe space. Now that would be fun to see. This Progressive pinhead curled into a ball and sucking his thumb in a room full of pillows puppies, kittens and coloring books whining about how people were mean to him.
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