Former Republican Pennsylvania Senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum has said that Ohio’s vote to back abortion rights and marijuana legalisation shows that “pure democracies are not the way to run a country”.
The rightwing commentator, who was booted from CNN after making disparaging comments about Native Americans, appeared on the far-right network Newsmax on Tuesday night to take part in its election coverage.
This is a standard flip-flop. Conservatives swear we’re not a democracy, we’re a republic, we need Wise Old People as representatives, not mob action, etc. Until it’s convenient to swear that the founding fathers wanted grassroots action at every turn, that people getting directly involved is the best kind of democracy, that insurrections by–
I’ll stop there. Anyway, it’s a phrase they trot out when things didn’t go their way.
Too bad it wasn’t a school shooter. Apparently the Founders were VERY CLEAR when it comes to making sure people can shoot up schools.
There they go again, saying the quiet part out loud!
“If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism, they will abandon democracy.”
insert principle skinner meme
"am i out of touch with the will of the people?
no, the people don’t know what they want!"
