Thread by @DataRepublican

🚨🗳️ NED WANTS TO TAKE YOUR ABILITY TO VOTE, AND CALLS IT “DEMOCRACY” 🇺🇸🧠

You thought Romania overturning an election or Germany banning AfD was extreme? Well, the USA Uniparty NED is considering taking away MAGA Americans' ability to vote. This is not an exaggeration.

NED published the idea to end universal suffrage for populists, so politicians like President Trump can never be re-elected.

This idea is from Ghia Nodia, a National Endowment for Democracy (NED) fellow, published in their flagship journal. Again, NED is 100% financed with our taxpayer dollars and their board has sitting members of Congress from both parties.

I will walk you through this incredible article...
"Democracy’s Inevitable Elites" Journal of Democracy, Volume 31, Number 1, January 2020, pp. 75-87.

Let's see the receipts below.👇

The problem with real democracy is that people might vote in ways globalists don't like, and that's exactly what this article tries to "fix."

The article leads with the premise:
"[Brexit criticism] rests on the assumption... that popular majorities are not competent to deal with some important issues... If the public lacks the wisdom to weigh the pros and cons of staying in the European Union, can it really be trusted to choose leaders? Many Americans... came close to saying that the people were not qualified to choose their own government."

That is a polite way of asking:
"Should the public still be allowed to vote at all?"

The solution? Taking away the ability to vote. Although Nodia says the idea is "taboo" - he also says in the same breath that the taboo is weakening. And NED did publish this.

Quote:
"So, if voters are truly incompetent (as they sometimes might be), no electoral mechanism will prevent them from making fatefully wrong decisions. Rejecting referendums is not enough: the natural next step would be questioning the very idea of universal suffrage. It is still taboo to voice overt support for such a move — though that taboo may be weakening."

In other words, if you vote the "wrong" way--like for Brexit, Trump, or against EU integration--they may decide you don't deserve a vote at all.

I have said this many times, but I need to say this again. This is not some obscure left-wing journal.

This is the the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a U.S. government-funded organization that operates entirely on taxpayer money. Members of Congress sit on its board, yet it openly publishes material that questions whether universal voting rights should continue to exist.

This is a 100% taxpayer-funded institution with bipartisan political backing, using its platform to circulate arguments suggesting the MAGA public may be too incompetent to vote.

The article makes clear that democratic participation is only acceptable as long as it doesn't threaten the institutions... which, in practice, means the authority of leftist elites.

Quote:
"These passions are crucial for dismantling autocratic regimes... yet in established democracies, the same passions may threaten liberal values and erode institutions."

Translation: Democracy is great... unless it disagrees with us. Then taking away others' ability to vote is fine.

When people vote in ways elites dislike, it's labeled a "democratic deficit." This article argues, without irony, that the EU's design, which deliberately distances voters from decision-makers, is what keeps "democracy safe." No, this isn't satire. They mean it.

Here's the quote:
"The EU’s notorious ‘democratic deficit’... is not merely another technical problem... it is part of the original intent of the European framers. Although they did not state this explicitly... [they] deemed a certain distance between the rulers and the ruled to be necessary in order to keep democracy safe..."

Again, NED is funded entirely by U.S. taxpayers and overseen by members of Congress. NED is publishing material that questions universal suffrage, defends anti-democratic structures, and openly promotes the idea that voters are too dangerous to be trusted with power.

Why hasn't NED and all its organizations been defunded, dismantled, and scattered to the wind already?

How long are we going to bankroll an institution that sees the American people as the threat?