{"id":68238,"date":"2018-10-16T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68238"},"modified":"2019-10-30T07:03:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:03:53","slug":"relax-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68238","title":{"rendered":"Relax"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world isn’t coming to an end over politics.\u00a0 It’s not going to.<\/p>\n

Kevin WIlliamson, on how good things generally are – and why some parts of our society are having such a hard time accepting that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Especially those on the left who consider the way things are today an “emergency”.\u00a0 It’s a laden term:<\/p>\n

Those familiar with the political career of Indira Gandhi will have a special appreciation for the concept of \u201cemergency.\u201d The Emergency refers to a 21-month period during which Mrs. Gandhi suspended civil liberties, ruled by decree, jailed political opponents, censored newspapers, and laid the foundations for what might have been a permanent dictatorship. Dissident political parties were banned, regional governments were dissolved and their leaders incarcerated. (The Malthusians never sleep: India also set on a course of involuntary sterilization during this period, as a means of population control.) There had been political unrest and political violence (as, unhappily, there long had been in India), but the proximate cause of the Emergency was the fact that Mrs. Gandhi had lost a court case that might have resulted in her being removed from office. The Emergency was the fact that there was political opposition to her government, and that the opposition was effective.<\/p>\n

Our situation is not quite so stark, but it is analogous. Longstanding American institutions ranging from the First Amendment to the Electoral College to the Senate have been suddenly and rashly declared \u201cillegitimate.\u201d Why? Because, at the moment, they are keeping the Left from getting what it wants. The Left wants to silence certain right-wing critics and dissidents, and the First Amendment stops them. The Senate and the Electoral College perform their intended constitutional role in protecting the interests of the less-populous states and their residents, ensuring the protecting of minority interests from the tyranny of the majority. This annoys the would-be tyrants. (They are, to their discredit, unable to truly appreciate that political tides turn, and that majorities are fickle things.) The ordinary political processes of the United States have produced results that the Left does not like, and, hence, those processes and the institutions that enable them must be considered illegitimate. The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is to be understood as a national emergency because . . . Democrats would prefer to have somebody else, and they believe they having something like a divine right to rule.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And one can only hope that it’s their eventual undoing.<\/p>\n

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