{"id":1710730,"date":"2022-10-25T16:32:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T20:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710730"},"modified":"2022-10-25T16:32:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T20:32:58","slug":"democrats-the-only-way-to-save-democracy-is-one-party-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-the-only-way-to-save-democracy-is-one-party-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats: The Only Way To Save Democracy Is One-Party Rule"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fdemocrats-the-only-way-to-save-democracy-is-one-party-rule%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=1710730&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--><p>At this point, it would save everyone time if Democrats could simply point to a policy agenda item that isn\u2019t going to save democracy \u2014 if such a thing exists.<\/p>\n<p>If Republicans vote, they are killing democracy. If they don\u2019t vote, they are killing democracy. The only way to \u201csave democracy,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maxboot\/status\/1524345353545388032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writes<\/a> The Washington Post\u2019s Max Boot, is to empower one-party rule \u2014 a position that probably sounds counterintuitive to anyone with a middle-school education. \u201cNow you need to vote to literally save democracy again,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/watch-biden-calls-for-democrats-to-vote-in-midterm-elections-slams-semi-fascism-in-gop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contends<\/a> President Joe Biden, or we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/10\/24\/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-democratic-national-committee-event-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">will<\/a> lose our \u201cfundamental rights and freedoms like the right to choose, the right to privacy, the right to vote \u2014 our very democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chilling stuff. But it doesn\u2019t end there. You will remember that by failing to \u201creform\u201d the filibuster, which would entail authorizing the thinnest of fleeting majorities to shove through massive generational \u201creforms\u201d without any national consensus or debate, we are also killing democracy. This has been the position not only of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2021\/04\/02\/kill-senate-filibuster-save-american-democracy-column\/7060951002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">left-wing pundits<\/a> and the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/11\/opinion\/us-filibuster-senate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">editorial board<\/a>, but also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.klobuchar.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/2021\/3\/for-the-people-act-is-one-reason-we-must-eliminate-the-filibuster-amy-klobuchar-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">senators<\/a> tasked with defending their institution. I wonder if they will support this democracy-saving fix next session, as well? <\/p>\n<p>Then again, if we don\u2019t nationalize the economy to avert a climate crisis, we are also killing democracy. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to save democracy in order to save our species,\u201d Jamie Raskin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/apr\/18\/jamie-raskin-climate-crisis-democracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explains<\/a>. And if we don\u2019t empty the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to temporarily keep gas prices low to help Democrats win in 2022, we are killing democracy. \u201cWe find ourselves in a situation, where keeping gas prices low is key to preserving and strengthening the future of our democracy,\u201d MSNBC\u2019s Chris Hayes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allinwithchris\/status\/1582887592277991425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We must allow the president to unilaterally create trillion-dollar spending bills and break existing private sector contracts by fiat. For democracy. We must <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/10\/21\/opinions\/court-packing-will-save-democracy-w-kamau-bell\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pack the court<\/a> to \u201csave democracy.\u201d We must <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/05\/18\/disinformation-board-dhs-nina-jankowicz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">create<\/a> a Ministry of Truth to help with \u201cstrengthening democratic institutions.\u201d We must vote for a Pennsylvania candidate who can\u2019t cobble two consecutive coherent sentences together because the \u201cfate of our democracy\u201d is at stake, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnfetterman\/status\/1583504501826523137\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> our former president.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t support a partisan congressional investigation that\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/06\/28\/jan-6-house-committee-misinformation-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">circumvented<\/a> basic due process norms, you probably hate democracy. If you aren\u2019t self-flagellating and holding yourself accountable for the actions of Jan. 6 rioters, you are also bolstering the coming autocracy.<\/p>\n<p>If the Supreme Court empowers the public to vote on an issue like abortion, unmentioned anywhere in the Constitution, it is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2022\/06\/27\/alito-dobbs-decision-states-rghts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">degrading<\/a>\u201d our \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2022-05-05\/abortion-rights-falter-as-democracy-slides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">democracy<\/a>.\u201d If the court protects rights that are explicitly mentioned in the Constitution from the vagaries of the political process, it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/our-work\/research-reports\/guns-and-democracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">also<\/a> undermining democracy. Which is convenient. <\/p>\n<p>The only way to save democracy is to allow one party (guess which one?) to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/03\/pelosis-h-r-1-is-an-authoritarian-outrage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">federalize elections<\/a>, so they can compel states to count mail-in votes that arrive 10 days late, legalize ballot harvesting, force the overturning of dozens of existing voter ID laws, allow felons to vote, create onerous burdens to chill speech, and empower bureaucrats to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Save Our Democracy&#8217; is the new &#8216;Russia Collusion.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":1710733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710730","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\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}