I’m old enough to remember when Democrats respected election results. But, yes, I’m not very young. In recent decades, Democrat leaders and activists seem to respect only those elections they win. See 2000. See 2016 and what is really an ongoing attempted coup against that presidential election. Heck, when was the last election of a Republican President after which Democrats genuinely respected the results? 1988?
Democrats are yet again showing their colors in openly still disrespecting the results of the 2018 Georgia Gubernatorial election in which the Republican Kemp won by over 50,000 votes. The official twitter account of the Georgia Democrat Party has dubbed him “Georgia’s Asterisk Governor.” That’s not from California, Washington, Oregon, or Vermont. That’s the Georgia Democrat Party.
And in case one thinks those are just the rantings of a twitter account administrator, the Democrat candidate Stacey Abrams never has respected and fully accepted the results. And she was joined in that by such mainstream Democrats as Hillary Clinton and Cory Booker.
This pattern from Democrats disturbs. When one major party persistently disrespects elections and the Constitution when elections and/or the rule of law do not go their way, the very foundations of the country are in danger. For if a major party does not respect constitutional democracy when the results don’t go their way, then they don’t respect constitutional democracy at all. And what happens when such a party gains power for any length of time?
What we have here is a major political party that acts more like totalitarians than Americans. Yes, I said it. It’s true, and it needs to be said. A first step out of our precarious situation is for us to open our eyes to what the Democrat Party has become.
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Yes, I have voted for a number of Democrats in the past. I doubt I can consciously do that again.
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