Enough Democratic Hypocrisy : Bush Won.... Get Over It

[ulTRAX]

Some months ago I posed the question whether extremism was a form of irrationality indistinguishable from psychosis. Extremists tend to forsake principles and divide the world into "what helps the cause" or "what hurts the cause". Take some in the Iraq insurgency. Their game plan seems to be to destabilize the nation at any cost, including targeting innocent Iraqis and aid workers. While there is no doubt a legitimate resistance to occupation, the extremists have forsaken their own humanity.

There's a less virulent form of such irrationality in American politics but the underlying pathology is the same. People have no core principles. Their only imperative is to see their side win.

Many Democrats and people on the Left disparaged Bush's win in 2000 as morally illegitimate, not that Gore won 50%+1. I'd like to believe this objection was based upon some higher principle that government derives its just powers from the consent of the people. That the EC is an unaccountable and anti-democratic star chamber. That certainly was my view. But many objected based on extreme partisanship. Those people are now talking about how Kerry should have should have won in 04 but had the election stolen in Ohio.

I don't know about you but if I found Bush's win in 2000 to be MORALLY illegitimate even if it were legal under immoral federal law... then I certainly will NEVER say Kerry should have won win in 2004 after losing the popular vote by some 3 million. Bush won a big enough majority that anyone who claims to believe in democracy MUST accept it even as they actively oppose him and all he stands for.

Unfortunately this is just another example of some so-called Democrats having no respect for Democratic principles. But, hey, that's consistent with the Democratic Party, itself, being devoid of democratic principles.