It is now being claimed that North Carolina is no longer a “democracy” and thus must be shunned as evil, which is neither here nor there since the U.S. Constitution guarantees the states a republican form of government, and not a democratic one.
Of course, to the Left, “democracy” isn’t what most people would think of as democracy (i.e. a classical liberal democracy), or indeed anything that definitionally would be considered a democracy. To the Left, “democracy” merely means acting in a proscribed correct fashion with resultant proscribed and correct function.
And just what is the alleged evidence for North Carolina’s eschewing of democracy?
“First, legislative power does not depend on the votes of the people. One party wins just half the votes but 100 percent of the power. The GOP has a huge legislative majority giving it absolute veto-proof control with that tiny advantage in the popular vote. The other party wins just a handful of votes less and 0 percent of the legislative power. This is above and beyond the way in which state legislators are detached from democratic accountability as a result of the rigged district boundaries. They are beholden to their party bosses, not the voters. Seventy-six of the 170 (45 percent) incumbent state legislators were not even opposed by the other party in the general election.”
Um, in North Carolina, legislators are elected by the vote of the people. This is because North Carolina is a representative republic, where people vote for individual representatives to act as stewards, rather than a slate of party-selected political insiders like is seen with parliamentary systems with proportional representation, which the author clearly favors.
