Democracy

 The word "democracy" is being thrown around a lot these days by people who support Democrat politicians. I seem to be having a bit of a problem wrapping my head around what the definition of that word must have somehow evolved to mean. It isn't used in such a way that it includes Republicans. Democrats and mainstream media outlets, especially since this past January (2021) have branded Republicans as enemies of "democracy" and, to me at least and I imagine to many other non-Democrats, that leaves Republicans and Republican definitions of "democracy" out in the cold.

It's not that Republicans don't believe in democracy. Most do. Yes there's always this claim that the United States by virtue of the Constitution is not a democracy but rather a "republic". I've been hearing that argument from the right for years. But the average everyday Republican voter still believes in the integrity of voting because it is the right and ability of citizens of the United States to elect the people who control our government.

That view, the Republican view, the traditional definition of "democracy", has become obsolete and has been replaced by another view, by another definition of the word "democracy".

The problem is, I don't understand what the new definition is.

Under the new definition the very act of questioning the integrity of elections somehow violates and threatens "democracy". Am I right? Am I just imagining it? I hear it all the time now from the Left and from mainstream media. The very act of suspecting election fraud is now somehow a threat to democracy, am I right?

Not just that but any legislation aimed at opposing voter fraud threatens democracy. Any news coverage, any legal action, any talk of voter fraud, under the new definition of "democracy" is threatening and undermines the principles of democracy.

It didn't used to be this way or if it was, it wasn't mainstream thinking for the American people. Am I right? Is there anybody out there that hears me?

How can anybody imagine that democracy is best served if we don't diligently watch for fraud but rather fearfully bury our heads in the sand at the very mention of it.

The vice-president of the United States of America reportedly recently claimed that people living in rural areas of America don't have access to photocopying equipment - itself a ridiculous claim - but that somehow that fact is good reason not to have voter ID laws where in order for a person to vote they have to prove that they are the person they claim to be when they show up to vote.

Granted that argument distracts from the other more common argument, itself ridiculous, that voter ID laws discriminate against "people of color" - Blacks especially - who presumably don't have the where-with-all to get an ID, which to my feeble mind seems to be as racist a claim as anything out there other than that cops like to kill Blacks or that it only matters if the people cops kill are Black.

I'm left wondering if maybe the new definition of "democracy" is that only the Left, only Democrats, are worthy of governing and anything that leads to that result, even election fraud that leads to Democrat victories, is good because democracy itself is a fraudulent concept and what really matters above all else is Socialism, a system of government not dependent on, fearful of, and in opposition to fair elections.