It appears democracy is too important to be left to voters.
Jonathan Turley
After Democrats ran on “saving democracy” from its imminent destruction, many voters may be a bit confused by the actions of their newly elected representatives. Democratic politicians and pundits are moving to negate certain results in the last election and to circumvent future votes on key reforms. The country could soon be experiencing the greatest changes to our constitutional system in 250 years, but the public will have little to say about it.
In Seattle, socialist Mayor Katie Wilson announced that she and the city would move to block a statewide initiative approved by 36 of 39 counties. The public voted to require the separation of boys and girls in K-12 sports. It is an issue that has overwhelming support among both Democrats and Republicans, with polls showing roughly 70 percent of Americans supporting girls’ sports for girls alone.
But Wilson and others do not like the decision, so they are seeking to protect the public from their supposedly bad choices.
In Colorado, Governor-elect Phil Weiser (D), the former dean at the University of Colorado Law School, was a prominent figure in the “No Kings” protests before the election. But after his election, he decided that the voters’ democratic decisions on transgender policies were inherently flawed and he would have to correct them.
Colorado voters passed a ban on male athletes in girls and women’s sports. Proposition 134 defined girls as having female reproductive organs and boys as having male reproductive organs. So that there would be no ambiguity later, the drafters expressly added that “students assigned male at birth play only on boys teams or co-ed teams and vice versa for females.”
The public also passed Proposition 135, banning gender-affirming surgeries for minors.
Weiser, however, declared that, with a new supermajority in both houses, Democrats would “have to take a look at these anti-trans measures … to fix [them] and provide a much more human and sound approach.”
This is the same politician who recently insisted that he was “defending democracy” and standing for “our government of the people, by the people, and for the people.” But apparently, the last thing large-D Democrats want to do is actually listen to the people.
The “saving democracy” crowd seems to have a very serious problem with democracy.
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Jonathan Turley
After Democrats ran on “saving democracy” from its imminent destruction, many voters may be a bit confused by the actions of their newly elected representatives. Democratic politicians and pundits are moving to negate certain results in the last election and to circumvent future votes on key reforms. The country could soon be experiencing the greatest changes to our constitutional system in 250 years, but the public will have little to say about it.
In Seattle, socialist Mayor Katie Wilson announced that she and the city would move to block a statewide initiative approved by 36 of 39 counties. The public voted to require the separation of boys and girls in K-12 sports. It is an issue that has overwhelming support among both Democrats and Republicans, with polls showing roughly 70 percent of Americans supporting girls’ sports for girls alone.
But Wilson and others do not like the decision, so they are seeking to protect the public from their supposedly bad choices.
In Colorado, Governor-elect Phil Weiser (D), the former dean at the University of Colorado Law School, was a prominent figure in the “No Kings” protests before the election. But after his election, he decided that the voters’ democratic decisions on transgender policies were inherently flawed and he would have to correct them.
Colorado voters passed a ban on male athletes in girls and women’s sports. Proposition 134 defined girls as having female reproductive organs and boys as having male reproductive organs. So that there would be no ambiguity later, the drafters expressly added that “students assigned male at birth play only on boys teams or co-ed teams and vice versa for females.”
The public also passed Proposition 135, banning gender-affirming surgeries for minors.
Weiser, however, declared that, with a new supermajority in both houses, Democrats would “have to take a look at these anti-trans measures … to fix [them] and provide a much more human and sound approach.”
This is the same politician who recently insisted that he was “defending democracy” and standing for “our government of the people, by the people, and for the people.” But apparently, the last thing large-D Democrats want to do is actually listen to the people.
The “saving democracy” crowd seems to have a very serious problem with democracy.
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