{"id":1445194,"date":"2022-04-19T07:30:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T11:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1445194"},"modified":"2022-04-19T07:31:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T11:31:16","slug":"its-not-just-elon-the-left-whines-threat-to-democracy-whenever-theres-a-threat-to-their-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-not-just-elon-the-left-whines-threat-to-democracy-whenever-theres-a-threat-to-their-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not Just Elon: The Left Whines \u2018Threat To Democracy\u2019 Whenever There\u2019s A Threat To Their Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-not-just-elon-the-left-whines-threat-to-democracy-whenever-theres-a-threat-to-their-regime%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1445194&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/40905871521_86f7fb113e_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The same people who relentlessly insisted that Big Tech\u2019s censorship campaign was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/14\/elon-musks-twitter-bid-proves-the-private-business-can-do-what-it-wants-censorship-defense-was-always-garbage\/\">totally fine<\/a> are now screaming that a potential buyout of Twitter by Elon Musk poses a certified Threat to Democracy. But we\u2019ve heard this absurd routine before, and it\u2019s not really democracy they\u2019re worried about. The Big Tech, big media, and big government cabal just whine about democracy being under siege when their own power conglomerate is threatened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxBoot\/status\/1514570168730636290?s=20&#038;t=ReCJti71Y661PtG0dYZzbw\">fretted<\/a>\u00a0The Washington Post\u2019s Max Boot last week, after the Tesla and SpaceX CEO offered to buy the entirety of Twitter stock. \u201cFor democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former New York Magazine writer Jesse Singal had the very intelligent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jessesingal\/status\/1514659533066575873\">take<\/a> that even the <em>possibility<\/em> of Musk buying out Twitter was \u201cAmerica\u2019s very first 9\/11,\u201d while Salon\u2019s Matthew\u00a0Rozsa\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewRozsa\/status\/1514582899651194891?s=20&#038;t=lYmEao6PgOP6D7qAQlwEBA\">blared<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cElon Musk\u2019s attempted takeover of Twitter is a threat to the free world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea of losing some power to silence opposing viewpoints on social media is terrifying to these people \u2014 so terrifying that in their panic they don\u2019t even realize they\u2019ve admitted their own gluttony for control. <\/p>\n<p>But this isn\u2019t the first time the group of people in media, tech platforms, and politics who want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_jUWWSdbAF0\">control what you think<\/a> have seen pushback on their vise grip and gone ballistic. And a \u201cthreat to democracy\u201d is their favorite label with which to smear anything that challenges their power. <\/p>\n<p>The most obvious example is the systematic campaign to convince the country that a five-hour riot at the U.S. Capitol \u2014 which, contrary to media lies, did not cause the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/06\/mass-gov-blames-trump-for-black-nationalist-murder-of-capitol-policeman-killed-last-april\/\">deaths<\/a> of five people \u2014 was as bad as or <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/10\/americas-justice-system-says-jan-6-was-neither-a-terrorist-attack-nor-an-insurrection\/\">worse<\/a> than the terror attacks of 9\/11, Pearl Harbor, and the Civil War. You don\u2019t have to defend the Jan. 6, 2021 riot to recognize that America\u2019s own justice system <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/10\/americas-justice-system-says-jan-6-was-neither-a-terrorist-attack-nor-an-insurrection\/\">indicates<\/a> it was neither an \u201cinsurrection\u201d nor a \u201cterrorist attack,\u201d despite the hysteria of the corporate press.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not the only instance. Just think back to when The Washington Post\u2019s Jennifer Rubin cried \u201cDemocracy is hanging by a thread\u201d when an elected majority in the U.S. Senate, including West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, determined not to pass President Joe Biden\u2019s Build Back Bankrupt plan. For Rubin and others, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/06\/actual-democracy-and-4-other-things-the-left-called-a-threat-to-democracy-besides-jan-6\/\">actual democracy at work<\/a> was just too much of a threat to \u2026 democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, The Atlantic has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2021\/04\/gop-grave-threat-american-democracy\/618693\/\">called<\/a> the entire Republican Party \u201ca grave threat to American democracy,\u201d with similar smears from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gop-has-become-even-greater-threat-democracy-than-trump-2021-6\">Business Insider<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/2021\/12\/6\/22820590\/republican-threat-to-democracy-six-steps-voting-rights-gerrymandering-mark-jacob\">Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When concerned parents showed up to school board meetings to protest racist and radical sex ideology in their kids\u2019 classrooms, they were labeled not just a threat to democracy but domestic terrorists, in a smear campaign that was revealed to be <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/12\/biden-education-secretary-planting-nsba-letter-takes-a-page-from-russia-collusion-hoax-playbook\/\">orchestrated<\/a> by President Joe Biden\u2019s own Department of Education.<\/p>\n<p>New York Magazine\u2019s Eric Levitz <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2021\/12\/john-roberts-boasts-majority-approval-among-democrats.html\">worried<\/a> that the U.S. Supreme Court was too conservative, threatening that \u201cthe consequences for \u2026 popular democracy could be dire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vox, among others, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/mischiefs-of-faction\/2019\/4\/9\/18300749\/senate-problem-electoral-college\">declared<\/a> that the constitutionally prescribed Electoral College \u201cposes a \u2026 long-term threat to American democracy.\u201d It has also claimed the constitutionally prescribed half of our bicameral legislature known as the U.S. Senate poses an even greater one.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, nearly everyone on the left whined that questions about the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/06\/j6-hysteria-is-how-media-and-other-democrats-are-avoiding-accountability-for-their-rigging-of-the-2020-election\/\">rigging<\/a> of the 2020 election were existential threats to democracy, after they spent years deriding President Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 win as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/10\/02\/hillary-clinton-repeats-falsehood-she-once-said-endangered-democracy\/\">illegitimate<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s more than obvious by now that these people don\u2019t truly want democracy or freedom, but power. When their control \u2014 over what laws are passed, who wins elections, what\u2019s taught to kids in schools, or what you\u2019re allowed to say on social media \u2014 is challenged, including by actual democratic processes like fair elections, free speech, or the will of a congressional majority, they\u2019ll rush to call the challenger an enemy of democracy itself. <\/p>\n<p>Just like Dr. Anthony Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/carlieporterfield\/2021\/06\/09\/fauci-on-gop-criticism-attacks-on-me-quite-frankly-are-attacks-on-science\/\">equating<\/a> himself with Science, these members of the ruling class want you to believe that an attack on their power is an attack on our entire political order. If they succeed in that, they can insulate themselves from all critique and silence the opposition, either via the power of cancel culture and self-censorship, or by simply locking the accounts of their critics.<\/p>\n<p>But their propensity to fall back on that sham defense every time their rule is threatened has revealed just how desperate they are for control, and just how ridiculous they are willing to sound to maintain it. If they felt confident they could maintain power without smearing every opponent as the next big threat to the free world, there would be no need for such distracting theatrics. Instead, they\u2019re so fragile that making any chink in their armor will get you labeled as America\u2019s (next) \u201cfirst 9\/11.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next time you hear cries that something is a \u201cthreat to our very democracy itself, even graver than all the other, formerly-gravest threats to democracy,\u201d it should be your first clue that that thing, good or bad, is making the censorship class quake in their silk slippers. Your second thought should be to expect them to exploit the \u201cdemocracy\u201d fearmongering for even more control \u2014 and your third thought should be to keep that the heck from happening.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. You can follow her work on Twitter at @_etreynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same people who relentlessly insisted that Big Tech\u2019s censorship campaign was totally fine are now screaming that a potential buyout of Twitter by Elon Musk poses a certified Threat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}