09/01/2022
Joe Biden is commandeering television to deliver a speech on Thursday about his lonely fight to save Democracy.
In general, when Democrats talk about saving Democracy they aren’t being very subtly Straussian about what they mean. Saving Democracy means: the Democrats win. It’s like when they demand “equity”: what they really want is your home equity. They’re not even trying very hard to cover up.
The simplest explanation of what is lately meant by “democratic” is: Is it good for the Democrats?
Similarly, what the people who demand “equity” mean is that they want your home equity.
It’s more clarifying to talk in terms of majoritarianism and minoritarianism. Among famous 19th century Democrats, Andrew Jackson tended to represent majoritarianism — the greatest good for the greatest number. John C. Calhoun tended to represent minoritarianism — the rights of the white Southern minority.
In the middle of the 20th century, Democrats emphasized majoritarianism — e.g., the working man, the masses, the age of the common man, etc. In the last third of the 20th century, however, Democrats emphasized minoritarianism, such as Jewish interests, black interests, and gay interests. For example, gay marriage went something like 1-32 in referenda, but then it was imposed nationally by judicial fiat.
Democratic minoritarianism continues today: for example, the Biden Administration is trying hard to maximally disrupt society by promoting the transgender agenda. As far as I can tell, the idea that there are very few transgenders, at least among adults rather than among moody adolescents, is part of the moral appeal to the Biden Administration for why everybody else must suffer in the name of the principle of the greatest good for the tiniest number.
But now that the Great Replacement is driving white Christians into the minority, Democrats are smoothly switching to espousing majoritarianism (while at the same time continuing to sacralize ever tinier minorities, such as transgenders).
On the other hand, in recent years, we’ve also heard Democrats talking more often about old-fashioned anti–checks & balances majoritarian ideas like abolishing the Senate and/or the Electoral College and packing the Supreme Court.
Why? It’s only due, of course, to the Great Replacement of voters in this century by immigrants that Democrats now look forward to a future in which they would prefer to get rid of Constitutional impediments to majoritarianism.
But of course the Great Replacement is just a Conspiracy Theory, not, as it would appear to your lying eyes, the central dynamic in American politics.
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