Jonathan Emord reminds readers at Townhall.com that the U.S. Constitution does not create democracy.
Democrat leaders speak often of “democracy” in hallowed terms, but rarely, if ever, do they mention, let alone, praise a republican form of government. President Biden insists “the United States is committed to strengthening our democracy.” Speaker Pelosi commands the nation to serve as “a symbol of democracy to the world.” Leader Schumer calls for “systemic democracy reforms . . . to save our democracy.” Senator Sanders harangues, “democracy must win.” Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez perceives a “very real risk” that democracy will disappear. In reality, they use the term “democracy” as a cover for what is in fact authoritarian rule. To them, rights are cognizable only to the extent those rights support their chosen exercise of governing power.
Leading Democrats advocate rule by their President through executive order without resort to Congress. They favor elimination of the electoral college as “anti-democratic.” They favor adding to the number of justices on the Supreme Court those preferred by Democrats until they dilute the conservative majority and render the Court reflective of the will of Congress and no longer independent. They support speech codes on college campuses to eliminate dissenting conservative views. They support cancel culture and Big Tech censorship as a means of ensuring that voices dissenting from their orthodoxies are suppressed. They support expansion of administrative state regulation to circumvent Congress so that climate change and social engineering initiatives may proceed at the will of the executive branch beyond the extent palatable to the American people. In short in the struggle between state power and individual liberty, they favor biased application of state power (supporting it in violation of rights whenever they favor the ends, and opposing it whenever they oppose the ends). That bias, or unequal justice, is not new but an outgrowth of the very Hegelian principles of collectivism that drove moves to forcibly sterilize some 60,000 Americans deemed “unfit” during the Progressive Era and created and expanded an administrative state. …
