The Guardian - The Long (really tedious and plain wrong) Long Read...
I have just been directed to an exceedingly dull polemic from some professor from some college.
The Guardian is not generally a publication where anything factual or sensible can be found, it is usually, as in this case designed to prove that their form of lefty/far right politics makes any sense, or has any validity. Of course they have failed again, which is understandable really, since it is complete nonsense.
The title of this piece is: "Could populism actually be good for democracy?". A very odd title for a a rambling piece that only mentions the word twice, other than in the title and on both occasions it is to denigrate genuine upholders of democracy.
What the article does prove is that the only enemy of democracy is the anti-democrat, usually the sort of people who are threatened by democracy. A king, or a wealthy individual or institution, like a bank, or a religious institution.
As far as I know, there has never been a war between two democracies. There have been plenty of uprisings against people or institutions that are intent on forcing their will over the people. Some of them very bloody indeed.
The article talks about the USA not being a very good democracy, could that possibly be because it was never intended to be a democracy? It might be accurate to suggest that the individual states are genuine democracies, but the federation that was consolidated following the very bloody civil war, is not, it is a constitutional republic. The only genuine democrat in the whole affair being forced to run for his life before he had managed to effect a (shock horror) democracy in America... Namely Tom Paine.
It claimed that one of democracy's greatest supporters was Woodrow Wilson... The president that shafted the people by passing the Federal Reserve Act during the Christmas recess in 1913, when there was no chance of what quasi democratic institutions that do exist in the US of stopping this successful take over of America.
It talked about President Andrew Jackson's attempt to bolster democracy by ending the electoral college system, which is expressly designed to thwart democracy. It didn't mention Jackson's successful effort to stop the march of the banksters when he forced the end of the second Bank of America.
There is mention of the mobilisations in the 20th century that led to the wars and deaths of 60 million people, no mention of the fact that none of this was due to democracy, or that each war was caused by people that were determined to destroy any existing form of democracy. There was mention of the six million Jews destroyed by national socialism, but no mention of the 100's of millions that died at the hands of the various twentieth century socialist dictators in Russia, China, Korea and Vietnam etc. etc. No mention of the deaths of Africans and Indians, starved to death by such luminaries as Gandhi, Jinna, Kenyatta, Amin, Mugabe, Mengistu... The list goes on and on and on.
Meanwhile, President Trump goes from strength to strength, unemployment down to its lowest in years, opening dialogue between enmities that have been festering for decades, and support that is growing strongly in the face of lefty hostility that cannot accept the fact that democracy actually serves ordinary folk far better than their socialist theory which always ends in death and destruction, usually of the people that they are "helping", with their special kind of "Basil Fawlty help".
Of course, one cannot mention Basil Fawlty, without thinking of the dyspraxic bureaucrat Theresa May, who is turning inelegant somersaults in her attempts to thwart the greatest British expression of democratic will in its entire history.
The Guardian is not generally a publication where anything factual or sensible can be found, it is usually, as in this case designed to prove that their form of lefty/far right politics makes any sense, or has any validity. Of course they have failed again, which is understandable really, since it is complete nonsense.
The title of this piece is: "Could populism actually be good for democracy?". A very odd title for a a rambling piece that only mentions the word twice, other than in the title and on both occasions it is to denigrate genuine upholders of democracy.
What the article does prove is that the only enemy of democracy is the anti-democrat, usually the sort of people who are threatened by democracy. A king, or a wealthy individual or institution, like a bank, or a religious institution.
As far as I know, there has never been a war between two democracies. There have been plenty of uprisings against people or institutions that are intent on forcing their will over the people. Some of them very bloody indeed.
The article talks about the USA not being a very good democracy, could that possibly be because it was never intended to be a democracy? It might be accurate to suggest that the individual states are genuine democracies, but the federation that was consolidated following the very bloody civil war, is not, it is a constitutional republic. The only genuine democrat in the whole affair being forced to run for his life before he had managed to effect a (shock horror) democracy in America... Namely Tom Paine.
It claimed that one of democracy's greatest supporters was Woodrow Wilson... The president that shafted the people by passing the Federal Reserve Act during the Christmas recess in 1913, when there was no chance of what quasi democratic institutions that do exist in the US of stopping this successful take over of America.
It talked about President Andrew Jackson's attempt to bolster democracy by ending the electoral college system, which is expressly designed to thwart democracy. It didn't mention Jackson's successful effort to stop the march of the banksters when he forced the end of the second Bank of America.
There is mention of the mobilisations in the 20th century that led to the wars and deaths of 60 million people, no mention of the fact that none of this was due to democracy, or that each war was caused by people that were determined to destroy any existing form of democracy. There was mention of the six million Jews destroyed by national socialism, but no mention of the 100's of millions that died at the hands of the various twentieth century socialist dictators in Russia, China, Korea and Vietnam etc. etc. No mention of the deaths of Africans and Indians, starved to death by such luminaries as Gandhi, Jinna, Kenyatta, Amin, Mugabe, Mengistu... The list goes on and on and on.
Meanwhile, President Trump goes from strength to strength, unemployment down to its lowest in years, opening dialogue between enmities that have been festering for decades, and support that is growing strongly in the face of lefty hostility that cannot accept the fact that democracy actually serves ordinary folk far better than their socialist theory which always ends in death and destruction, usually of the people that they are "helping", with their special kind of "Basil Fawlty help".
Of course, one cannot mention Basil Fawlty, without thinking of the dyspraxic bureaucrat Theresa May, who is turning inelegant somersaults in her attempts to thwart the greatest British expression of democratic will in its entire history.
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