Republican Lauren Boebert recently said: “When Democrats say something is a ‘threat to Democracy,’ it really means it is a threat to the Democratic Party.”
If a bill is supported by 60% of the Senate, it cannot be stymied by filibuster. But the Democrats do not enjoy such a majority. In order to circumvent that “problem,” Biden has talked about “reforming” the filibuster rules. When asked to explain himself by ABC’s David Muir on Dec. 22, Biden responded that the Voting Rights Bill soon to be submitted to debate was too important to be held up by an argumentative opposition.
In her next press conference Jen Psaki was asked if the President’s rationale did not represent a “slippery slope” that could lead to the abrogation of any number of restrictive protocols on the grounds that the legislation they were impeding [i.e., on issues such as gun rights, the environment, etc.] were too important to be delayed. Psaki side-stepped the question and said she would let the President speak for himself.
But both the Law and the Constitution mean little to the sanctimonious Left. The very voting “rights” Democrats purport to be defending in fact facilitate voter fraud, the Republican urge to enhance election integrity by demanding unassailable I.D. from each and every voter denounced by the Left as, surprise, surprise, “racist.”
[Nancy Gbana Abudu, a left wing activist affiliated with the ACLU from 2005-2019, has been nominated by Biden to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. The Daily Wire has just cited a 2011 interview in which she said “photo I.D.” and “proof of citizenship” were both mere veiled attempts at “voter suppression” !!!]
Have the integrity of America’s borders and its immigration laws been granted any degree of respect by the Biden administration? Of course not! Have the Democrats suggested expanding the make-up of the Supreme Court because they presently do not have a majority there? Of course they have! They are Fascists for whom rules, regulations, traditions, etc. are mere inconveniences.
One of those “inconveniences,” of course, is the Enlightenment Principle that Freedom of Speech is essential to the health of a functioning Democracy. Twitter’s new CEO, Parag Agrawal, has declared that his role is “not to be bound by the First Amendment,” but to decide “who can be heard.” In a 2020 interview with MIT’s Gideon Lichfield he actually derided the notion of Free Speech! An avid “progressive,” this arrogant jerk controls access to information of hundreds of millions across the planet. Truly frightening!
Canadian citizen Denise Ho, a pro-Democracy activist, was arrested in China on Dec. 29. Her crime was that she had published “seditious material” detrimental to the State. In the “progressive” West such material is called “hate speech.” While there is of course language worthy of that epithet, its knee-jerk invocation by the “social justice” crowd is more often than not an expression of the same Fascistic arrogance informing all Dictatorships, informing, for example, Biden’s idiotic conviction that if the Rules interfere with his agenda, he has every right to change them! It’s Fascism parading as “progressivism” and it is disgusting!