Our guest columnists are Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
Mike Lee, whose name we can’t say without spitting, has a new target in his sights.
“We should be celebrating diversity in our schools,” he emailed us last week, “and to be clear, critical race theory doesn’t celebrate diversity — it weaponizes it.”
Yeah, that part’s in bold so you don’t miss it.
He can’t do that, they said.
There are laws against that sort of thing. There are rules. It says so right there. You’re silly for worrying about it.
And yet, we’re worried anyway. Not because a President can, on his own authority, delay an election, but everything he can do short of that.
Maybe we’re indulging in some wishful thinking here. We’ve certainly seen a lot of it lately.
But we’re having a hard time seeing the normal things will return to. The normal of four weeks ago. Or forty years.
When you’re a President, they let you do it.
They let you lie.
And lie.
And lie.
They broadcast your lies, no matter how bald, with the weakest of clarifications.
They never call them lies.
“Iraq in its quest for democracy lacks only — only! — what America then had: an existing democratic culture.”
— George F. Will, Winter 2004
“As experience in Eastern Europe has shown, democracy doesn’t mean simply holding elections. First, you need a democratic culture, or what is usually called a civil society.”
— Los Angeles Times, April 11, 2003
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