High-minded appeals to transparency are the stuff of which Democrats are made. Barack Obama has called his scandal-plagued White House \u201cthe most transparent administration in history,\u201d even as he resorts to circumventing the legislative process to enact policies he couldn\u2019t get through Congress, thereby stripping voters of their ability to check the executive branch. \u00a0Hillary Clinton says she has been \u201cas transparent as possible\u201d about her troublesome e-mail, ignoring the plain truth that she intentionally used a private e-mail account to circumvent public-disclosure laws, thereby keeping voters in the dark about her work as the nation\u2019s chief diplomat.<\/p>\n
Is power ultimately vested in \u201cthe people\u201d? And do \u201cthe people\u201d have a right to the capacity and knowledge to make use of that power? If so, then Democrats at the highest levels have sought to curtail their rights at every turn. And now it\u2019s happened again, at the ballot box in Iowa, the state\u2019s Democratic party and the apparent winner of the caucus having decided that transparency and accountability \u2014 \u201cmore democracy,\u201d as it were \u2014 do not serve their purposes at this particular juncture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
America may have slid from “Democracy” (representative republic, of course) into “Authoritarian Bureaucracy” some time ago. \u00a0But the Obama administration will be known as the time when the mask came off all the happy talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On the Democrat side, it mattered because it’s high time the voters saw how dodgy the Democrat “commitment” to “democracy” actually is. Ian Tuttle: High-minded appeals to transparency are the stuff of which Democrats are made. Barack Obama has called his scandal-plagued White House \u201cthe most transparent administration in history,\u201d even as he resorts to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57431,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57430\/revisions\/57431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}