Republican Rick Santorum:'..Democracies Are Not The Way To Run A Country'

[appalachiablue]

- Daily Kos, Nov. 8, 2023.

Commenting on yesterday’s election results, former Pennsylvania Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum claimed on Tuesday that Ohio’s results proved “pure democracies are not the way to run a country.”

As has become increasingly clear in recent years, the GOP no longer believes in the essential core of democracy — that decisions should be made by majority vote. Formerly pretending to be the conservative “small government” party supportive of individual freedom, in recent years the GOP has abandoned all pretense.

We have watched with horror how Trump and his GOP enablers pushed us closer and closer to authoritarianism and outright fascism. But Trump is just the visible tip of the GOP “iceberg”. Santorum makes it totally clear: Today the GOP’s position is “I know what’s better for you than you do … So what you think doesn’t really matter”.

Gerrymandering, GOP primary processes designed to “choose” the candidate a priori selected by the GOP National Committee, the shambles in Congress where “compromise” is viewed as a four letter word by the tiny radical right-wing minority in charge in the House, … All proves only one thing — They do not trust the unbiased vote, the essential democratic decision-making process...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/8/2204420/-GOP-s-Santorum-democracies-are-NOT-the-way-to-run-a-country

[hildegaard28]

1. It's

government by the people, for the people. Can't get much more clear than that. If Republicans don't like it they can move to Russia.

[appalachiablue]

3. Right on

[raging moderate]

8. YES! Government OF, BY, and FOR the people! Abraham Lincoln!

"Government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the Earth."
Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President of the United States

[appalachiablue]

15. ++

[Mike Nelson]

2. Well...

... the last two disastrous Republican Presidents rose to the office due to the un-democratic Electoral College. When considering their disastrous last years, maybe we should be MORE Democratic?

[The Unmitigated Gall]

4. "We hold these truths to be self-evident..."

"...that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

The CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED, Rick, you utter traitorous FUCKSTICK.

FUCK PUKES.

[CrispyQ]

5. Why? Because you rich (mostly) white men have done such a bang up job?

You guys were all for democracy when the system favored you but now that the field is being leveled you don't like it so much when you have to compete with the lesser folk & discover that a lot of them are smarter & sharper than you.

Don't get me started about the ecological brink we're standing on due to the policies of rich (mostly) white men.

[FakeNoose]

6. You know what? Christo-fascism is not the way to run a country

Rick Santorum was formerly a Senator from Pennsylvania, but nowadays he couldn't get elected dogcatcher in PA or anywhere else. That's why he hates democracy.

[appalachiablue]

9. ++ Good post, is he still a lobbyist living well?

[FakeNoose]

10. Yes and he used to get occasional gigs on Faux Noise

Not sure if he's still doing that. What an asshole!

[appalachiablue]

13. Yrs ago Santorum & Paul Ryan were everywhere, glad that's over

although they're still active with the far rt.

[Roy Rolling]

7. MAGA-speak

Democracies work together to elect leaders to represent their interests.

I can understand why he’s confused.

He doesn’t know the difference between democracies and elected officials. Between civil servants and political hacks. Between reality and propaganda words.

[Septua]

11. The bright side of all this is...

..Republicans won't learn from the losses. And it wasn't just the abortion issue that won in Ohio. All the other local Dem wins signal the same thing we saw in previous elections. Sane voters are voting in favor of democracy, more and more.

The GOP will keep pushing unpopular positions and continue losing elections.

[Aristus]

12. He can't possibly be thinking of running for office again.

He has to know that any opponent of a race he is in will just run that clip over and over and over again all campaign season long.

[lees1975]

14. I think we have seen, since January 6th, the saving of American Democracy rise to the top

of the issue list. Banning tic tok and women's access to healthcare isn't cutting it.

[Aristus]

16. This sounds like it was meant to be a clumsy lead-in to the usual repuke bullshit about

"We're a republic, not a democracy!"

There's no way we will ever get them to understand that we are both, a democratic republic, and they should stop trying to squeeze some kind of political relevance out of the name of their party.

[appalachiablue]

17. Kick