OT- Liberals think democracy has a reset button

Liberals think democracy has a reset button

Justin Darr
May 29, 2005

A few years back, I was watching my son play little league baseball.
This is
not the little league you and I might remember where a few of the older
kids
would pitch to you with the coach standing behind them, but our new
liberalized "T-Ball" little league where the kids get to stand up at
the
plate and cut away at a stationary ball ad infinitum until they hit it
and
get to run to base. On this day the unthinkable happened. A boy hit the
ball, and a player actually caught it, turned and made a strong throw
to
first base, and to all the parents' shock and joy, the first baseman
caught
the ball long before the batter reached the bag. Now, back in the days
when
conservative Neanderthals ruled the Earth, this would have been called
an
"out." But not so today in America's "enlightened" youth athletic
programs.
No, this was called a "nothing." The boy was returned to the plate so
he
could have another chance to bat and achieve the "proper" outcome of
him
getting to run the bases like everyone else. It is not like they keep
score
or anything, so who cares?

The problem is that liberals do not confine this reset button mentality
to
just the activities formerly known as youth competitive sports, but
freedom
and the democratic process in general.

The European Union is in turmoil because the voters of France have
refused
to ratify the new EU Constitution in a national referendum. Regardless
of
analysts' claims that the referendum was more a referendum on Jacques
Chirac's Presidency, or that the French public failed to understand the
"nuances" of the cumbersome 317 page European Union Constitution, it is
entirely possible that the French people do not want to be part of a
wider
European Union. Who knows, could it be that the French enjoy being
French
and have no desire to be Greater Europeans?

It really might not matter. Even before the referendum, EU rotating
President Jean-Claude Juncker, of Luxembourg, stated that France should
re-run their referendum in order to achieve the "right answer" if the
voters
reject it. Too bad Mr. Juncker did not work for the Al Gore
Presidential
Campaign, we still might be voting. Since when has the democratic
process
had a "mulligan clause?" This is a national referendum, not a slice off
the
tee!

With increasing frequency liberals world wide are seeing when key
elements
of their agenda are put up for the approval of the electorate, they are
soundly defeated. However, instead of accepting the will of the people
and
trying to find new ideas for a new age, liberals are intent on
subverting
the democratic process by any means possible. In the liberal mind, the
only
fair election is the one they win.

Currently, 18 states have passed amendments to their state
constitutions
defining marriage as a union between a man and woman through state wide
referenda. Even in the case of left leaning Oregon, these initiatives
were
passed in all the states proposing them by huge double digit margins.
Unfortunately for the voting public, liberals do not feel that we
selected
the "right answer" on the same sex marriage issue, so they are seeking
to
undermine the will of the people with the cooperation of their judicial
activist allies in the Courts. In early May, U.S. District Judge Joseph
Bataillon struck down the Nebraska defense of marriage amendment
because.
well because he did not like it, and effectively voided the votes of
70% of
Nebraskans who voted in favor of the amendment in 2000. Yet once again,
when
liberals do not like the results of the democratic process, they seek
to hit
the reset button, toss the decision aside and go on as though the vote
never
occurred.

As in international treaties, domestic policy and little league
baseball,
liberals love freedom and democracy so long as they get to pick the
winners.
Liberals seek to use the democratic process as a means to affirm what
they
believe. When it is rejected, they push reality aside and attempt to go
on
as though they actually won the support of the people. A democracy is
only a
democracy when the majority of voters decide how they will live their
lives.
If you are unable to accept this simple fact, and constantly try to
undermine the will of the people anytime it is against your opinions,
then I
do not know if you are a Communist, Fascist, or Autocrat, but you are
certainly not an American.

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