America’s Democracy Will Not Be Put into Quarantine João Lemos Esteves
www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/03/america_democracy_will_not_be_put_into_quarantine.html
EXCERPT
‘Most importantly now is to appeal to the resilience of American democracy and system of liberties: as opposed to what some have been claiming, the American electoral process must go on as normally as possible; democracy does not capitulate to any threat, let alone to a virus which the Chinese communists could have avoided if they had been willing to do so. The ongoing primaries both in the Democrat party and in the GOP (with President Trump getting astonishingly high scores for an undisputed election!) cannot be stopped for the sake of the sanctity of the American constitutional system of republican government. Otherwise, all the tyrants and enemies of freedom around the world would learn how to disrupt American democratic devices and mechanisms — this would actually be real collusion aimed directly at the heart of the government by “We, the People.”
Do not ever forget that authoritarian regimes — like that of China — want democratic states to doubt themselves; to make us have second thoughts on the value of democratic self-government. They want to persuade everyone that a centralized totalitarian regime with a brutal coercive command structure is far better than democracy and individual self-determination. Let’s not play their game — democracy and individual liberties are not up for debate. American democracy — due to the resilience, the ingenuity and the bravery of American people — is immune to any virus. Chinese, Russian, Iranian, you name it — viruses will always stop at nothing in their efforts to undermine the government by the people.
The Democrats’ Project Fear Will Fail J.B. Shurk
www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/03/the_democrats_project_fear_will_fail.html
Have they scared you yet? Me neither. Not for want of trying, though. Project Fear is ramping up, and it’s only going to get worse. The Democrats and the global establishment class do not care how many lives are lost or how much financial damage results. They have only one concern: removing President Trump from power, silencing us, and bending the arc of history back toward the plutocratic governing elite. For them, that is the only moral universe that can exist.
All of us have known this was coming. From the moment on November 8, 2016, when we looked at each other and smiled, we knew the real war had just begun. The people with the most power in our country and across the globe had spent six months before that fateful election campaigning on nothing but fear. They promised economic ruin. They promised imminent nuclear holocaust. They promised that internal unrest would lead to civil war, that foreign policy inexperience would lead to global war, and that global warming skepticism would lead to planetary extinction. They laid all this and more at the feet of American voters, but enough of us had finally grown so furious with decades of ineptitude and betrayal by the federal government that we drew our own red line across America’s timeline and said, “No.” We did not fall for their scaremongering and delusions; we held our ground and finally pushed back.
EXCERPT
‘Most importantly now is to appeal to the resilience of American democracy and system of liberties: as opposed to what some have been claiming, the American electoral process must go on as normally as possible; democracy does not capitulate to any threat, let alone to a virus which the Chinese communists could have avoided if they had been willing to do so. The ongoing primaries both in the Democrat party and in the GOP (with President Trump getting astonishingly high scores for an undisputed election!) cannot be stopped for the sake of the sanctity of the American constitutional system of republican government. Otherwise, all the tyrants and enemies of freedom around the world would learn how to disrupt American democratic devices and mechanisms — this would actually be real collusion aimed directly at the heart of the government by “We, the People.”
Do not ever forget that authoritarian regimes — like that of China — want democratic states to doubt themselves; to make us have second thoughts on the value of democratic self-government. They want to persuade everyone that a centralized totalitarian regime with a brutal coercive command structure is far better than democracy and individual self-determination. Let’s not play their game — democracy and individual liberties are not up for debate. American democracy — due to the resilience, the ingenuity and the bravery of American people — is immune to any virus. Chinese, Russian, Iranian, you name it — viruses will always stop at nothing in their efforts to undermine the government by the people.
