Beyond parody https://t.co/m6jmGBRfWK
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 12, 2022
Is the fact that it so often resembles a Monty Python skit.
The Best Argument Against Representative Democracy
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Winston Churchill said, “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
Every interpretive dance I’ve ever seen looks like every other interpretive dance I’ve ever seen.
I’m not getting it. Someone on the staff of the European Parliament arranged for the MEPs to be bemused and bored by this. The suburban school administrators I was familiar with 50 years ago countenanced the same sort of mush. Why does it say something about the people subjected to it, much less their voters?
Winston Churchill said, “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
I’m not sure he said that, but in any case it’s a dumb remark. The voter isn’t immersed in the elected official’s daily fare so naturally doesn’t know much about it. People should have more horse sense, more general sense of what’s going on, and more interest in the public sector. Of course, that will make the elected official’s job more challenging, not less.
How much did Mr. Churchill know about what made his car run? Did he ever cook for himself?
Someone on the staff of the European Parliament
You asked and you answered why the legislators are to blame Art. This type of idiocy does not occur throughout most of the West by accident. It is willed into being by majorities in the legislatures elected by the people ultimately.