"Democracy" Has Become A Leftist Talking Point

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/01/03/media-democracy-jan6-atlantic-npr/ 

In the year since the Jan. 6 insurrection, mainstream journalists have done a lot of things right. They’ve published major investigations, pointed out politicians’ lies and, in many cases, finally learned how to clearly communicate the facts of what happened leading up to that horrendous riot at the U.S. Capitol — and what is happening now as pro-Trump Republicans steadily chip away at the very checks and balances that saved American democracy last year.

Much of this work has been impressive. And yet, something crucial is missing. For the most part, news organizations are not making democracy-under-siege a central focus of the work they present to the public.

“We are losing our democracy day by day, and journalists are individually aware of this, but media outlets are not centering this as the story it should be,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a scholar of autocracy and the author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present.”

That American democracy is teetering is unquestionable. Jan. 6 is every day now, in the words of a recent New York Times editorial that noted the growing evidence: election officials harassed by conspiracy theory addicts, death threats issued to politicians who vote their conscience, GOP lawmakers pushing measures to make it harder for citizens to vote and easier for partisans to overturn legitimate voting results.

Similarly, NPR recently ran a seven-minute segment on what it called “the clear and present danger of Trump’s enduring ‘Big Lie.’ ” As NYU’s Jay Rosen noted, the piece was admirably direct in its language: “No dilution via 'both sides,” no ‘critics say,’ Just a straight-up warning.” And on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this weekend, moderator Chuck Todd — who has deservedly drawn criticism in recent months for too often allowing GOP talking points to go unchallenged — stepped up in a significant way to detail the “big lie” spread by Trump allies this past year to evoke the specter of a supposedly stolen presidential election.

More pointedly, the Atlantic magazine — which positions itself as centrist rather than left-leaning — published an entire issue in December devoted to the topic of democracy under threat. The cover headline’s message was hard to miss: “January 6 was practice.” The cover story by Barton Gellman began with this chilling paragraph:

“Technically, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup. It will rely on subversion more than violence, although each will have its place. If the plot succeeds, the ballots cast by American voters will not decide the presidency in 2024. Thousands of votes will be thrown away, or millions, to produce the required effect. The winner will be declared the loser. The loser will be certified president-elect.” 

All of this is good, necessary and important. The Atlantic, particularly, seems to have taken on the challenge.

“We focus on the enemies of democracy, the villains, but we also need to focus on democracy’s heroes,” including those working at the grass-roots level, Ben-Ghiat told me, such as voting rights advocates and public officials in communities across the country. An occasional feature story on Stacey Abrams, the celebrated activist and former Georgia state lawmaker, is not nearly enough.

What is it with the Washington Post's weird obsession with democracy? 

Their mission statement is "democracy dies in darkness." Wtf does that even mean?

I wonder if the lady who wrote this ridiculous article can even define democracy. She obviously isn't familiar with the concept of defining things that you want to discuss. I'd love to hear her working definition of democracy. Then ask her how she feels when democracy produces "racist/sexist/homophobic/anti-semitic" results. 

From what I'm able to gather - reading this anti-Trump/pro-democracy piece - is that being pro-democracy just means that journalists can't allow republican talking points to go unchallenged, and it should be easier for illegals to vote democrat. 

She fails to acknowledge that democracy is a product of white supremacy. Insofar as the concept behind democracy was created by white men for white people. As are "human rights."

If you read between the lines, what she is doing is renaming Marxism and calling it democracy. That is what the Left is really good at. I call it "wordism." They take words and redefine them in an abstract way, to the point that they are entirely subjective. Because their world is based on their feelings. To people like the lady who wrote this junk journalism op-ed, reality is a social construct. She doesn't want to defend democracy, she wants to claim the term "democracy" for Leftists, as a way of redefining reality based on feelings.

Leftists have not only thrust democracy into darkness, but they have taken the ethical essence and integrity of journalism, and effectively made it tabloid-tier quality. 

What they mean by "democracy dies in darkness" is that democracy only works properly when democrats are viewed in a positive light. Or, when democrat policies are democratically successful. And when they're not, then we aren't a democracy, we are a democratic republic.

So, what are democrat policies? Diversity, degeneracy and destruction.

Democracy is for democrats.