Democrats Go All-in on Rule or Ruin in Election s Final Hours – AMAC – The Association of Mature American Citizens

For a number of months now, large segments of the Democratic Party, along with the media and former Republicans radicalized by their defeat in the battle for control of the GOP, have been defining democracy and legitimacy solely in terms of electoral outcomes. In many ways this phenomenon is a natural outgrowth of the cancel culture which has taken root in American colleges and corporate boardrooms, in which there is only one right position, and hence the legitimacy of any process can be defined solely in terms of whether it reaches that conclusion. A rigged process which produces the correct outcome , such as Affirmative Action, is inherently legitimate, whereas an impartial process which nevertheless produces an unwanted outcome, such as the Electoral College, is, to the left, illegitimate. If the Electoral College or the Supreme Court defend the proper outcome, as Democrats feel those institutions did during the 2020 election, then they are vital institutions of government, and any questioning of them amounts to a subversive attack on the Constitution and democracy. If, however, they produce the wrong outcome, such as when the Electoral College produced a victory for Donald Trump in 2016, or when the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, the institutions have discredited themselves and undermined democracy.

It was inevitable that, having turned on the Electoral College and the courts, Democrats would not shy away from charging the voters themselves with undermining democracy by exercising their suffrage incorrectly. What is shocking is how blatant the shift has been. It is not just Biden who has adopted this language, or Hillary Clinton, still bitter over 2016, who told CNN that Republicans were going after Democracy and blamed the GOP for the attack on Paul Pelosi by homeless nudist activist reportedly present in the country illegally.

via amac.us

“If we don’t win, it’s not democracy.” I never would have thought about it that way.