Donald Trump won, at absolute
minimum, 84% of the counties in America in the 2020 presidential election. And,
allegedly, lost that election. The map of America, comprised of red and blue to
illustrate this, therefore appears almost entirely red.
This is why Democrats disdain
republicanism and federalism, and drone on nauseatingly about “democracy.”
“Our democracy.” The founders didn’t want a pure democracy because they always
devolve into mob rule and chaos as they die. And this is why we have a representative
republic with three branches of government, each acting as a check and
balance on the other two. And it is why
the Senate is composed of two members from each state regardless of population.
And it is why we have an Electoral College. Etc.
Democrats are horrified when they
look at the nearly red map of the country, and are similarly distressed when
presented with the number of counties won by Republicans. This leads them to
immediately claim that our democracy is in existential trouble and must be
defended. They then propose several options for “preserving our democracy,”
including eliminating the Electoral College, packing the Supreme Court, adding
Puerto Rico and the federal area (Washington, D.C.) as states, and going to a
popular vote only basis for determining the winners of presidential elections. All
while attempting to imprison their political opponents. (See also:
Donald Trump, Roger Stone, Jan 6ers, etc., etc.)
Good ideas or bad? Perhaps even
“unfair?”
Picture the country as if it had
two giant cities of 90 million people, one on each coast, or both on the same
coast. Doesn’t matter. Say each of those great cities vote about 80-90% for the
Democrat Party candidate…as they are wont to do. In that case, the votes of
virtually everyone in the rest of the country wouldn’t matter. At all. Even if
nearly all of them voted for the Republican candidate. The map of the fruited
plain would appear as two tiny blue dots on a sea of red. (This isn’t much
different from what we have now. New York, Philadelphia, Washington, etc., are
so close together they nearly bleed into each other. On the other coast, we
have the southern California metropolises and the San
Francisco-Oakland-Sacramento megalopolis, among others.)
That is the kind of
“fairness” and democracy Democrats seek to impose on the nation. Which, to use
terms they favor, marginalizes and disenfranchises the rest of us. (In one
sense, this “disproportionately affects” conservatives/MAGA types.)
It is Democrats who fundamentally
transformed the country and who still appear to disdain it. In my figurative
example, the right thing to do would be to let these two cities become their
own entities or entity…and the rest of the country could go its separate way,
as well…thus giving both more representative governments.
The Democrat-run big cities could
be sanctuaries for illegal aliens (and also just plain aliens like James
Carville and Adam Schiff), unfettered abortion proponents, drug abusers, the
homeless, the Transgender Community, etc. They could refuse to fund police
departments so that they could put that money into providing universal basic
incomes-- and towards paying drag queens for hosting children’s “story hours.”
They could make paganism their official non-religion and Bud Light their
official beer. They could ban all news networks other than MSNBC and mandate
that all residents watch The View. (If any hyper progressive folks are reading
this, they are likely thinking: “That’s what I’m talking about! That’s my
kind of democracy!”)
The rest of the country? Well,
those folks would still be able to elect national, state, and local leaders as
they saw fit, according to the dictates of a legitimate representative
republic.
Only Democrats can holler “foul!”
after “winning” a presidential election (despite losing 84+% of the
counties)! And then propose various changes that will assure they can never be
challenged again! To “save our democracy” don’t ya’ know! Incredible.
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