When Biden took office, one of his first acts was the elimination of our border security. Like a power-hungry dictator, Biden simply decided to ignore our immigration laws. His catastrophic border policy resulted in untold millions of unidentified foreign citizens from around the world pouring into our country. Its impact is now being felt in cities across the country. The worst is yet to come. PETER LEMISKA - AND WE'RE ALREADY THERE!!!
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
BILLIONAIRE JEFF BEZOS OF AMAZON SAYS ONLY THE BILLIONAIRES SHOULD PICK PRESIDENTS - LIKE WHO DOES BEZOS THINK PICKS THEM NOW?!?
Democracy Dies in the Washington Post: WaPo op-ed argues for having elites decide presidential nominees
The Democrats are a mess, with socialist and unelectable Bernie Sanders now the clear frontrunner among Democratic voters. He can't win. But enough Democrats are upset at the leveraged buyout of their party by billionaire Michael Bloomberg that they've moving to the old socialist as a defense mechanism of sorts.
The current process is clearly flawed, but what would be better? Finding an answer means thinking about the purpose of presidential nominations, and about how the existing system falls short. It will require swimming against the tide of how we’ve thought about nominations for decades — as a contest between everyday voters and elites, or as a smaller version of a general election. A better primary system would empower elites to bargain and make decisions, instructed by voters.
Kid you not, that's really what was written in today's Washington Post. That's the solution being bruited about for the Democratic malaise by one Julia Azari, a leftist professor writing in the pages of the Washington Post.
Her logic goes that since lots of candidates enter the race, elites should choose who's electable, balancing interests, which we just know they'd be willing to do as sacred trustees of The People. The problem is the voters, who just can't pick their candidates right, they have too many to choose from, see, and in the end, they mess up the system. Sure the system's great as a starter thing, but...
What it’s not great at is choosing among the many candidates who clear that bar, or bringing their different ideological factions together, or reconciling competing priorities. A process in which intermediate representatives — elected delegates who understand the priorities of their constituents — can bargain without being bound to specific candidates might actually produce nominees that better reflect what voters want.
Her proposal, she hastens to add, would just be for the party nomination of course. Somehow, voters are still O.K. in her book for the big one, it seems picking the president.
So much for that electoral college rage going on since President Trump got elected. She doesn't say what she thinks about that.
But for picking Democratic candidates, nothing works better than having a nomenklatura elite to sort these things out for us, given that the voters can't be trusted. It sounds like a bringback of the Superdelegate system that enraged Democratic voters last time - and is why Democrats in the end put out the very weak candidacy of Hillary Clinton. Now, unhappy with Democratic voter choices in this latest round, she's proposing to bring it back in some new form, for the voters' own good. That's how they Got Trump and whether they know it or not, they're now saying "thank you, may I have another."
But it certainly is reflective of the Democrat distrust of letting voters decide. As Marxist Bertholt Brecht used to say: "If the government simply dissolved the people. And elected another?”
Washington Post Op-ed: ‘Give the Elites a Bigger Say in Choosing the President’
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The Washington Post is taking criticism for an op-ed published Tuesday by Marquette University political science professor Julia Azari, titled: “It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president.”
Citing the “rocky start” to the Democratic Party’s presidential primary, Azari suggests that the process of choosing the nominee be taken from the people and returned to the politicians:
The current process is clearly flawed, but what would be better? … A better primary system would empower elites to bargain and make decisions, instructed by voters.
One lesson from the 2020 and 2016 election cycles is that a lot of candidates, many of whom are highly qualified and attract substantial followings, will inevitably enter the race. The system as it works now — with a long informal primary, lots of attention to early contests and sequential primary season that unfolds over several months — is great at testing candidates to see whether they have the skills to run for president. What it’s not great at is choosing among the many candidates who clear that bar, or bringing their different ideological factions together, or reconciling competing priorities. A process in which intermediate representatives — elected delegates who understand the priorities of their constituents — can bargain without being bound to specific candidates might actually produce nominees that better reflect what voters want.
Azari suggests that the parties should use what she calls “preference primaries,” which would “allow voters to rank their choices among candidates, as well as to register opinions about their issue priorities.”
After a perfunctory voting process, wlites would be able to choose a nominee based on information about what the voters want.
She acknowledges that the idea is “labor-intensive and a little risky.”
The Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, who is the world’s richest man. The paper’s slogan, adopted as an intended rebuke to President Donald Trump, is “Democracy dies in darkness.”
That phrase was trending on Twitter on Wednesday morning as readers reacted ironically to the op-ed.
Azari’s article appears to anticipate the possibility of a “brokered convention” among Democrats this summer. Currently, no candidate is projected to win a majority of delegates before they gather in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — near Professor Azari’s university — at the Democratic National Convention.
If no candidate wins on the first ballot, there will be a second — at which point committed delegates will be free to choose other candidates, and the party elites, known as “superdelegates,” will be able to vote.
Also on Tuesday, billionaire oligarch Mike Bloomberg, who once changed the rules to run for a third term as mayor of New York City, qualified for the Democrat debate in Nevada on Wednesday evening.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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