The Diplomad posted this corker of an article on Thursday:
“Here’s some breaking news for the MSM boys, the same ones who have called just about everything wrong about America for the past many decades: America is not “divided.” You want division? Go back to 1861; now that’s division. What we have now is something called, and we’ll go slowly, d-e-m-o-c-r-a-c-y. You know, that’s when the people get to decide who will govern. They get something called a choice. Some people will vote for one choice; other folks will vote for another. The choice with the most votes wins; the other choice doesn’t. That’s it, that’s the extent of the division. We’ve been doing this process of choosing for a very long time and on a regular schedule.”
It’s a short post but the rest is equally excellent. You don’t win elections by sitting around feeling sorry for yourself, you don’t win them by blaming the electorate for not agreeing with you and you don’t start calling people stupid. I believe as Andrew Sullivan does that there is great wisdom in the hearts and minds of the American people as a collective, they weren’t shocked into voting one way because of a terror attack and they weren’t driven by any October surprises. They made their choice and they will abide by it for 4 years.
The clamors of “I’m moving to Canada” are plain moronic and ultimately are entirely at odds with the democratic system. Democracy isn’t holding a vote - even Saddam Hussein held ballots (Noted by Sean, They weren’t exactly free to write what they want on the ballot, point taken - bad example). Democracy is what happens afterwards, when the populous accepts the judgment of the majority and the winning party takes up power.
The Republican party won this election. I know it’s easy for us in the UK to gloat what with having our centre-left policies and programs already in effect but the Democrats need to deal with the choices of the electorate, otherwise their name is sorely misleading.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at November 5, 2004 07:48 PM | TrackBack