{"id":1727651,"date":"2022-11-07T07:32:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1727651"},"modified":"2022-11-07T07:34:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:34:06","slug":"democracy-isnt-at-risk-democrats-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democracy-isnt-at-risk-democrats-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy Isn\u2019t At Risk, Democrats Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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%2Fdemocracy-isnt-at-risk-democrats-are%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=1727651&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>Last week confirmed the \u201cdemocracy at risk\u201d theme will serve as Democrats\u2019 closing argument heading into Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019ve got election deniers serving as your governor, as your senator, as your secretary of state, as your attorney general, then democracy as we know it may not survive in Arizona,\u201d Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/11\/03\/obama-warns-democracy-survive-arizona-00064813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proclaimed<\/a> at a Phoenix rally, punctuating his point by declaring, \u201cThat\u2019s not an exaggeration. That is a fact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday evening, President Joe Biden repeated the mantra at an event hosted by the Democratic National Committee at Washington\u2019s Union Station. \u201cIn our bones, we know democracy is at risk, but we also know this: It\u2019s in our power to preserve our democracy,\u201d Biden told the audience. The president then connected the supposed threat to democracy with the upcoming midterm elections, entreating the audience to \u201cmake the future of our democracy an important part of your decision to vote and how you vote.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post on Sunday provided Biden and his fellow Democrats an assist in pushing the \u201cdemocracy at risk\u201d closing narrative, headlining a Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/2022\/11\/06\/midterms-test-american-democracy\/\">column<\/a>, \u201cMidterms Pose Fresh Test for American Democracy After Two Years Under Fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to say whether the \u201cdemocracy at risk\u201d pitch speaks more of desperation or of stupidity, but either way, the promotion of this buzz-phrase in the final days of the election season proves an implicit acknowledgment that it is Democrats who are at risk in Tuesday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p> Democracy Isn\u2019t on the Ballot \u2014 It <em>is<\/em> the Ballot <\/p>\n<p>In our constitutional republic, Tuesday\u2019s vote provides Americans our only democratic say in governance at the federal and much of the state level until the 2024 election. But rather than sell voters on why Democrats will be better representatives, the \u201cdemocracy at risk\u201d pitch pretends that electing Republicans will destroy the very democratic process the voters just engaged in. It is both silly and a circularly self-negating theory.<\/p>\n<p>That Democrats decided to rest on this theme, then, shows they know that on the substantive issues they have nothing to sell the country. In contrast, Republican candidates running for everything from school board member, to state legislator or governor, to House representative or senator are hammering the harm that has befallen our country since Democrats took over less than two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation, high gas prices, still-rising interest rates, and a recession represent the pocketbook issues voters place atop their list of concerns. The open border, high crime rates, and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, which has siphoned off billions from U.S. taxpayers, add to the anti-Democrat sentiments. A lack of standing in the world, first seen following the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, accelerated in recent months with Biden\u2019s outreach to Saudi Arabia and the man Biden promised to make a pariah. After fist-bumping with the Saudi leader, Biden suffered the humiliation of OPEC moving to further tighten the oil supply in response to the president\u2019s entreats to pump more oil.<\/p>\n<p>And while Democrats thought the Supreme Court\u2019s reversal of <em>Roe <\/em>provided them a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A red wave will not be an end to our representative democracy. 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