Holy hell, am I tired of the 'democracy is dead' argument on the left. I like what Lileks said on the subject back in 2003:

Oh, absolutely. That's why we need Clark: Enough of those big banners in the train stations telling us to SHUT UP AND OBEY, and the endless mandatory TV shows about our Glorious Leader and his plans to increase the radish crop by 170 percent for the next five-year plan. Don't you wish your TV came with an off switch, so you could avoid the propaganda? Don't you wish you could skip the Tuesday night book burnings? Don't you wonder if we crossed the line the night John Ashcroft personally executed Al Franken on "Saturday Night Live"? I miss America, too.

Liberal critics like to point to the Algerian "cancelled" election as an example of democratic hypocracy. In fact it saved democracy in Algeria. The Islamist party ran on a platform of ending democracy. Their slogan was "One vote, one time!". If they had been allowed to take power they would have scrapped the constitution, instituted Sharia Law, & banned further elections. This plan was plublicly declared by the Islamists.

If liberals believe it is good for democracy for any party with any policy to come to power, perhaps they should consider to the 1933 German elections.

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There is a good reason to feel dumber for having read it. He can't spell metastasize and he thinks Diebold is Deiboldt. Does HuffPo even run the old spellchecker?

Well, you know, Democracy is bad because in Iraq, the recent elections effectively turned Iraq into Iran.

Its a fact, politician to politician, law by law, they are now Iran. They even have a former terrorist and American hostage taker as president. And a nuclear program. You can trust me because Miquel and his various other identities said so, and he is an expert on MidEastern politics. On the other hand, Iraq still has Kurds, but lets not dwell on the differences...

And an election did this! At least under Saddam, Iraq wasn't Iran. In fact, under Saddam, Iraq was so secular that Iraq was the only country in which Al Qaeda deemed it not worthwhile to operate or to have contacts with. Thus, proving that Bush's invasion into Iraq was a costly sidestep in the war on terror, keeping us from, uh, (I actually never took the time to figure out what we were doing in the war on terror, but I bet it has something to do with torture)winning(that sounds good)...

Finally, under Saddam, the citizens of this progressive, secular, liberal community, there were children who regularly played with kites. Until the Americans killed 100,000 children.

*ok, sarcasm over*

Democracy is dead because my guy didn't win.

*sigh*

Liberals out of power are funny.

Note that his little joke doesn't really make sense.

I don't think there's supposed to be any sense there, just sneering in all directions. ("...whose politics appear to only slightly to the left of Pat Robertson." Hahahahaha! D'you get it?)

By the way, who the hell is Aaron Freeman? How come I've never heard of any of these Huffomegacelebrities on that site?

Liberalise translation of "democracy": When leftists are in power. Hence the "Democratic People's Republics" of Communist dictatorships.

How come I've never heard of any of these Huffomegacelebrities on that site?

I suspect because you have a life?

Oh, shit.

This guy is serious.

It read like so many of the award-winning Deep Thoughts from the previous post, I just assumed ace posted it in the wrong spot.

Really more of a side comment, Evan Bayh isnt all that moderate. He plays the centrist because he wants to be elected president, and for no other reason. He will take whatever position necessary to get the most people to like him in his next election. Currently he is trying to get his liberal cred better intact for the Dem. presidential primary. On an even more side note if he can beat hillary in the primary he will in all likelihood swing indiana blue in the general election, more than enough swing for any democrat to win. Unless say we find a republican that can swing a blue state red. Say New York perhaps?

You know, as an aside, I thik this guy unwittingly brings up a point against moral equivalence--even the bad guys tacitly admit our way is tje good way, otherwise why would they try to fake it for the sake of appearances. It's not like we have to stage phony military takeovers to justify who we elect.