Tucker Questions Democracy When Dem Leaders Care About Jan. 6th Riot, H1B Visas for Tech Workers, and Climate Change

‘Our leaders care about equity and climate change, they care about trends rights, police brutality’

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CARLSON: “All of a sudden, pretty much every powerful person in the country is talking about something called democracy. ‘Democracy, our sacred democracy!’ You hear that word everywhere, from ‘The Atlantic’ to NPR to the ‘New Yorker’ magazine and NBC News in between. ‘Democracy’ defines the year 2022 the way that ‘groovy’ defined 1968. All the cool kids are saying it. Liz Cheney has decided her life’s mission is now to defend democracy. Jim Acosta has a new CNN show in which he uses the word ‘democracy’ the way some people use prepositions — in every sentence. Tomorrow, at 2:00 P.M. Eastern, there’s a Zoom webinar on Democracy, which you’re welcome to attend, in case you haven’t heard enough about it already. Every left-of-center midwit on Twitter will be there. All of them will be fretting about the future of democracy. Pretty amusing. It’s easy to make fun of an event like that. And of course, you have a moral obligation to. David Frum bloviates about democracy. Insert joke here. But actually, if we’re being honest about it, you should be a little worried about the state of our democracy. How is our democracy doing Well, let’s see. Another way to describe democracy is popular representation. That’s a synonym. When the government does what citizens want it to do, you have a democracy. And when it doesn’t, you don’t. You no longer have a free country that is ruled by its people. So what kind of system do we have? It’s easy to know. You find out what citizens care about and then you compare those concerns to what the people who run the government say they care about. If you’ve got a functioning democracy, there should be a fairly precise overlap. In a democratic system, leaders try very hard to speak for their voters. That’s the whole point of the government. So let’s apply that test to the United States of America. What do our leaders care about? We know the answer because they tell us constantly. Our leaders care about equity and climate change. They care about trans rights, police brutality, the deadly insurrection on January 6th, mandatory vaccinations, more H1B visas for Indian tech workers, and above all, at the moment, defending our closest ally, Ukraine, from Russian aggression. And of course, they care about third-wave academic feminism. That’s deeply important to them.”

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