David Foster has an interesting post about how top officials have been elected in the past. He talks about the Holy Roman Empire and “Guided Democracy.”
Guided democracy, also called managed democracy, is a democratic government that functions as a de facto autocracy. Such governments are legitimized by elections that are free and fair, but do not change the state’s policies, motives, and goals.
In other words, the government controls elections so that the people can exercise all their rights without truly changing public policy. While they follow basic democratic principles, there are major deviations towards authoritarianism. Under managed democracy, the state’s continuous use of propaganda techniques prevents the electorate from having a significant or any impact on policy.
Foster asserts that prior to PDJT, this is what was happening in America. It is a compelling read.
Nancy Pelosi, asserting that there should be no presidential debates, said “I wouldn’t legitimize a conversation with (Trump) nor a debate in terms of the presidency of the United States.” (emphasis added) She also called President Trump and his Congressional supporters “enemies of the state,” a phrase that has a rather sinister history. See also her November 2019 comments, made in the context of the impeachment hearings, about the integrity and legitimacy of the 2020 elections.
What this is really all about, as I see it, is an assertion that no elected President is legitimate unless he is approved by the Proper People.
In the Holy Roman Empire (‘neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire,’ said Bismarck), the Emperor was chosen by election, but the election was limited to a small elite group known as the Prince-Electors. In America today, we have a group of people–national journalists, elite academics, senior government officials–who see themselves as the Prince-Electors and who believe no one should become President without their endorsement.
There can be popular elections, in this model, but the candidates are required to be pre-vetted by the Prince-Electors. So maybe a better historical analogy would be Guided Democracy, “a formally democratic government that functions as a de facto autocracy,” practiced most notably in Indonesia under Sukarno.
Increasingly, Democrats are attacking the foundations of true democracy and maneuvering for establishment of an autocratic oligarchy overlaid with a Potemkin “people’s” government. The 2020 elections will measure how successful–or not–they’ve been.
This idea can be extended to countries like the old USSR and its block of vassal states. Elections (when they were allowed) had no real impact on public policies. One can look to Hong Kong right now to see this idea in practice. China has vetted a majority of members of the ruling body. Only those vetted can be elected to these privileged positions. There are still some “open” positions but they are in a minority. Changes are directed by China’s rulers. Less than half way through the treaty’s fifty years that turned Hong Kong over to China, true representative democracy is gone.
This is what the Democrats want here. Trump upset the process that was in place. PDJT has called out the corruption of politicians and their allies feeding at the public trough, getting rich at the expense of the American worker. The result from the MSM has been an unending stream of false, vile accusations against PDJT.
The Democrats and their allies have abandoned all pretense. They are trying to keep the economy from recovering regardless of what this does to the American people. They are allowing the destruction of parts of many urban centers hoping to reap electoral success. They are now trying to accomplish via voter fraud (aka, all mail in voting) what they had hoped to accomplish with Hillary Clinton as president. They want one party rule (the uniparty) where the people may believe they have a democracy but where the country is actually ruled by autocrats and oligarchs.
An observer named “Kirk” notes,
It’s all about the corruption, I’m afraid.
Trump is an outsider who listened to an honest adviser (from appearances) who wanted to audit the intel/diplomatic world where the corruptocrats have been drawing funds. Kickbacks, hiring of relatives, sweetheart deals, you name it–Flynn said he was going to audit it all, and that’s why he was the entrapment victim. It was all about stopping that audit, and the risk that the public would find all this out.
And, it’s not the Democrats or the Republicans, per se, it’s the entrenched DC interests that think they’ve got a lock on running the country. Whether or not they’re red or blue, they think they’re the anointed ones, the sole legitimate powers. Membership in that club is worth trillions to all of them, and they’re not going anywhere without a fight.
“Kirk” hits the nail on the head. General Flynn was targeted because he would have upset the apple cart with his proposed audit. The American people would not still be in the dark about the money laundering operations that were feeding oodles of money into corrupt pockets if Flynn had remained as DNI.
“Kirk” went on,
We’ve allowed our own sort of oligarchy to gain a monopoly on power, and this is what we have to show for it: They think they’re our masters. They did the same thing to Sarah Palin that they’re trying to do against Trump, and they’ll keep right on doing it to anyone who isn’t one of them and who manages to get into a position of power.
This is the only explanation that makes any sense as to why Joe Biden, a man clearly in the early stages of dementia, is the nominee of the Democrats. No one else from their “approved” list had any following at all with the people. The media and the Democrats think that by hiding him and by uniting against PDJT, they can fool the public and drag a doddering old fool across the finish line. Biden owed them from all the previous years in the game.
So, the Democrats, the party of slavery, Jim Crow and the KKK, nominated a racist as exposed by his own thinking and are trying to pass him off as some champion of diversity. Will the brainwashed base of the Democratic Party buy this fraud? Will they support Biden because he has been anointed by the Democratic elites? If the Democrats succeed, this will be the biggest fraud perpetrated on the country ever and will be the end of the greatest experiment in human governance ever.