Pendragon_6
10-18-2006, 08:30 AM
October 18th, 2006
Democrats named their party after democracy. They used to think it was a good way to run things.
There has been debate on the right for years about whether President Bush’s promotion of democracy in the Middle East as an integral part of the GWOT is perhaps too naively Wilsonian. Democrats are largely silent or dismissive on the issue. Woodrwo Wilson was, of course, a Democrat.
The once fervent support for democracy among Democrats from Wilson through Truman has been ebbing over decades. The one time elections in much of the old colonial world in the sixties most often led to disaster and a letdown of enthusiasm for democracy. Domestically, Democrats began to seek alternatives to appeal to elected representation. In the seventies, unpopular policies like school busing, affirmative action and (initially at least) abortion found Democrats seeking cover behind the non-elected federal courts. ‘The Courts have spoken’ was a common Democrat response to being asked to take a stand on the unpopular issues. By the nineties it was commonplace for Democrats and the left to seek policy victory by court ruling when there was no chance of prevailing in the democratically elected branches.
In Full
The American Thinker (http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5955)
Democrats named their party after democracy. They used to think it was a good way to run things.
There has been debate on the right for years about whether President Bush’s promotion of democracy in the Middle East as an integral part of the GWOT is perhaps too naively Wilsonian. Democrats are largely silent or dismissive on the issue. Woodrwo Wilson was, of course, a Democrat.
The once fervent support for democracy among Democrats from Wilson through Truman has been ebbing over decades. The one time elections in much of the old colonial world in the sixties most often led to disaster and a letdown of enthusiasm for democracy. Domestically, Democrats began to seek alternatives to appeal to elected representation. In the seventies, unpopular policies like school busing, affirmative action and (initially at least) abortion found Democrats seeking cover behind the non-elected federal courts. ‘The Courts have spoken’ was a common Democrat response to being asked to take a stand on the unpopular issues. By the nineties it was commonplace for Democrats and the left to seek policy victory by court ruling when there was no chance of prevailing in the democratically elected branches.
In Full
The American Thinker (http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5955)