Couldn’t Say It Better Than This
September 14, 2009
The protestors keep saying that they want their country back. Sorry, my fellow small-governmenters, but this country is a democracy, and you didn’t lose your country, you just lost an election. You had your chance for eight years. You blew it, and you lost. What Obama is doing is what he was elected to do. The principled response is not a massive, extremist-riddled hissy fit a few months in, but a constructive set of proposals to build on universal care for a more market-friendly and cost-conscious system in the future. You have to win some political credibility for that; and then you have to beat the man you lost so badly to last year. That’s the civil and civilized way forward for the right. It also seems, alas, to be the one they are currently refusing to take.
September 14th, 2009 on 3:58 pm
This country isn’t a Democracy. Democracy is mob rule, which is essentially what we have now. This country is a Representative Republic………..which means you can protest to your representatives whether you voted for them or not.
September 14th, 2009 on 8:40 pm
i’ll go back to Sullivan for the response on this cuz he’s right on:
“He also says that I am arguing that ‘the losing side in an election thereby loses the right to protest.’ Not true. They have every right to protest, as I wrote. But declaring this a power-grab or somehow unexpected is absurd. It was his priority in the campaign. It’s not like, say, the Iraq war.”
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/09/campaign-promises.html