a democracy. e you can t be because in a a democracy, the government has a moral and legal obligation to tell you the truth. always, period.n and that makes sense because in a democracy, you are not a subject or a mere consumer. you reen. a citizen. of you are a shareholder in who the system. you were an owner of it.nt are y the people who run your government are your employees. likethey re like your cleaningod lady. you may appreciate the work they do. good jobe minute you. cuf but the minute you catch them stealing your cufflinks, you fired them. those are the rules because bu those are the rules because t whatbut what if the rules were inverted? what if you caught an employee stealing? but instead of seemingseem asha and penington, he whipped around and attacked you like you were the criminahel? f well, that is the experience of watching white house spokesman john kirby talk about the destruction of the nord stream pipelines. anyondestructorth stre who ie who thinks
the same way our leaders run our country. they yammer on endlessly g abour itmocracy, but then at the same time, they do their best to a avoid democracy s most basic requirements, like free speechel and representative government. e a few years ago, the prime minister of italy at the time, paolo gentiloni, bragged tow ye the world economic forum about his plans to, quote, bring more social justice to the country by what she meant, importing many more thousands of poorly educated economic migrants from the third world into italy. we are very open on migration, he said. we are saving lives at sea, a saving lives.oo congratulations. you re such a good person. but the question is , and it s a relevant question in a democracy, what are the people who live in italy that would be your constituents? think of that idea. well, as the prime ministert? explained, he didn t care, quot: quote, a demand for more democracy not only is wrong, it s even dangerous.llows you following this, you
who ve been relocating rel migrs to proud sanctuary enclaves. rhonda santurce sending two flights of migrants to obama s favorite vacation spot, martha s vineyard, massachusetts democrats alreadhy calling that a humanitarian crisis. , and it s only 50 people.d and texas gov. greg abbott dropping off busloads of immigrants right at kamala sd doorstep after she declarede. the border secure. using the president is accusing republicans of using those asylum seekers as political oth props while others go even eve further. instead of working with us on solutions, republicans are playing politics with human beings, using them as props. abidin santurce are doingda today in the legacy of segregation, segregationists playing politics with people s lives. these are. the kinds of f tactics we see from smugglers in places like mexico and guatemala. some politicians would rather not only have an issuet f but exacerbate it to the extenta of literally human trafficking. as you said
plus, it works well.people fewer people die on the operating table when you do it that way.when you do it for generations. this is how american society ran. if you were smart and you worked hard, you could compete. i m pretty much equal footing against anyone else in america.. they tell you that was neverallh true, but it was true. it was called the american o dream. the re moved here from allver oe the world to partake in that system. but there was a political problem with it. if you ve gooutt a mérida kraddc society, it s pretty hard to play race politics because raced to plays no role in advancement. individual initiative is what matters. group interests are irrelevant in a meritocracy. now,group in that may sound idyc to you. it may sound like the kind of country you d want to live in, but for the democraticcrat party, it was a disaster.ic p get your voters to the polls if they re not racially aggrieved? it s harde of. so at the tail end of the civilo rights move
a member of congress, she adopted the august faintly exotic title, alexandria akutsu of corte sz, which sounds like the name of one of che s girlfriends in revolutionary bolivia because his picture her in the back of the motorcycle in a beret, and then once she ascended, still higher and became cardassian, this very same person began going t queen ofthús ticktock. but along the way, most peopleee dooing a not know this.k she had still another name during the twenty eighteen democratic primary in which she beat party stalwart joe crowleyo by attacking him for being white. sandy cortez went the nament alex . jus bt alex , your friendly neighborhood gender nonspecific bartender alex on alex campaign website. at the time, there was a section explaining what alex believed. one of alex s views read this way, quote, alex believes wes wo must end the forever war by bringing our troops home and ending the airstrikes and bombings that perpetuate the cycle of terrorism and occupa