{"id":41123,"date":"2023-08-30T16:36:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T20:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=41123"},"modified":"2023-08-30T16:36:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T20:36:42","slug":"ny-times-thinks-elections-are-bad-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=41123","title":{"rendered":"NY Times thinks elections are bad for democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s considered to be nothing more then a propaganda sheet for the Progressive Liberal Democrat Party. Their contempt for the average American doesn\u2019t just bleed into their news and opinion pieces, it floods into them.<\/p>\n

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Recently the New York Slime demonstrated their contempt for everyone with an Op-Ed<\/a> that declared that \u201cElections are bad for Democracy.\u201d Here are the details from the Federalist<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

T<\/b>he New York Times published an op-ed<\/a> this week declaring elections are \u201cbad for democracy.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201c[W]e might be better off eliminating elections altogether,\u201d argued Adam Grant, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, in the piece, which subsequently had its headline changed from \u201cElections are Bad for Democracy\u201d to \u201cThe Worst People Run for Office. It\u2019s Time for a Better Way,\u201d hours after publication following online <\/a>mockery<\/a>. Despite the new title, the message remained unchanged. <\/b><\/p>\n

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. <\/b><\/p>\n

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If you think that sounds anti-democratic, think again. The ancient Greeks invented democracy, and in Athens many government officials were selected through sortition \u2014 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?<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you know you\u2019re picked at random, you don\u2019t experience enough power to be corrupted by it,\u201d Grant added. \u201cInstead, you feel a heightened sense of responsibility: I did nothing to earn this, so I need to make sure I represent the group well.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

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<\/a> 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\u2019m not going to post it here. There isn\u2019t enough eye bleach made to take the sight away. Trust me on this)<\/p>\n

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While acknowledging random selection might \u201cdeprive us of the chance to select a leader with distinctive skills,\u201d Grant was clear: \u201cthat\u2019s a risk I\u2019m willing to take.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

Well I\u2019m not you progressive pinhead.<\/p>\n

Grant made his \u201cfinal\u201d point that \u201cvoting also means no boundaries to gerrymander and no Electoral College to dispute.\u201d 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\u2019 objections<\/a> in 2001, 2005, and 2017. <\/b><\/p>\n

Well the answer to that is simple. He\u2019s one of the moonbats who think the best leaders are Progressive Liberal Democrats and that if a Republican wins, it\u2019s 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)<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead 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,\u201d Grant wrote. <\/b><\/p>\n

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While I don\u2019t 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\u2019s also not unusual for teams to trade that place in line, or trade their choices for a player to be named later. I don\u2019t think this is what this idiot has in mind.<\/p>\n

He warned against using elections \u201cto\u00a0roll the dice on the hopes of finding the best\u201d candidates, as if the lottery system he proposes were not a way to \u201croll the dice\u201d on who oversees one of the largest enterprises in human history: the federal government. <\/b><\/p>\n

When you have an election, you get to look at those who are running and see how they\u2019ve done things. Of course, that also requires an honest 4th<\/sup> Estate that isn\u2019t acting like a 5th<\/sup> column for one side or the other. What this clown is doing is misquoting William F. Buckley. He once said:<\/p>\n

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.<\/b><\/p>\n

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)<\/p>\n

The proposal to eliminate elections altogether for the sake of \u201cdemocracy\u201d further goes to show that \u201cbad for democracy\u201d means anything left-wing activists don\u2019t like, from particular candidates to free speech, the Electoral College, and the U.S. Supreme Court. <\/b><\/p>\n

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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 \u201cDenier.\u201d Never mind that there are a lot of questions about the 2020 Tainted Election that people want answered.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile leftists, who apparently have free rein to call for completely abolishing elections, have chastized any Republicans raising concerns about election administration as \u201celection deniers<\/a>.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

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But Republicans aren\u2019t the ones who are advocating to deny Americans free and fair elections in the name of \u201cdemocracy.\u201d Nor are they the ones who exploited<\/a> lockdown-era panic measures to remove legal election safeguards and jeopardize confidence in American elections. It\u2019s not elections that are \u201cbad for democracy.\u201d It\u2019s the fight to eliminate them, whether by dismantling election laws or siccing the feds on the top political opponent of the incumbent regime. <\/b><\/p>\n

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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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

In what passes for their minds, the average person is uneducated, (Since they don\u2019t 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\u2019t possibly know what is in their best interests. Only people like Adam Grant have that knowledge.<\/p>\n

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These are the idiots that are weaponizing the Justice system, and going after people\u2019s 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\u2019m certain that Grant is receiving all sorts of kudos from those in his circle.<\/p>\n

I also don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

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