IGNORANT: Someone needs to educate Lauren Boebert about the Constitution
For at least the last eight years, Republicans convinced many conservative voters that ignorance is a virtue, it makes one real.
No, it just makes one really ignorant and it’s especially debilitating when a leading House Republican lacks a functioning familiarity with America’s Constitution.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) entered politics because she knew the Second Amendment. Fine.
But a broader understanding of the Constitution might keep Boebert from wrongly saying that America isn’t a “democracy,” but a “Constitutional Republic.”
Her statement isn’t just wrong, it is dangerous
Patriot Takes sharply called out Rep. Boebert’s humiliating and hazardous statement:
Lauren Boebert doesn’t want the United States recognized as a democracy.
Boebert: “We’re not a democracy. So quit with that. Maybe that’s where you’re getting it wrong is saying we’re a democracy. We’re a constitutional republic.” pic.twitter.com/hdiMqzXHKe
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) April 14, 2023
Rep. Boebert makes her argument about America’s Constitution while addressing what is taught in schools. Except she herself needs to go back to school.
Our Constitution formed a democratic republic.
Boebert’s argument mimics the smug answer that a certain type always gives when confronted with the statement that America is a democracy. “Technically, we’re a democratic republic.”
Fine.
We are also very much a “democracy” in the colloquial use of the word, and that’s why Rep. Boebert’s agenda may go a little deeper than just her own ignorance regarding the Constitution.
Around the country, Democrats and Independents see a Republican party that increasingly rejects democracy in favor of minority rule by brute strength and the willingness to impose a minority view against the voters’ intent.
One sees it in Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a six-week abortion window that effectively operates as an abortion ban, despite 75% of Floridians favoring legal abortion in all or most cases.
In Wisconsin, the super-majority legislature talks about impeaching a state Supreme Court justice who won an election by 11 points just a week prior.
And in Texas, a jury convicted a conservative of murdering a liberal on a Friday, and by the next day, Gov. Abbott (along with Tucker Carlson) moved toward pardoning the murderer, thereby initiating the court system.
The above are diabolically anti-democratic and occurred in the last two weeks.
So perhaps Boebert has some talking points distributed by the GOP in which they are to downplay America’s Constitutional “democratic republic.”
In a democracy, a permanent minority can only gain power if democracy is thrown aside.
Boebert fiercely says, “We’re not a democracy, okay! Let’s start from there.”
And though she drifts into teaching “real subjects” and not CRT, she strongly rejected the obvious fact that – yes, colloquially – we are a “democracy.”
Indeed, America near-defines “democracy,” both here and around the world.
Any Republican rejection of democracy is dangerous. In the words of David Frum:
“If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”
Rep. Boebert fails her entry-level exam regarding America’s Constitution.
The real fear, however, is that she scored an “A” on her Republican platform test.
We are a democracy unless a minority rips control from the majority.
They are trying.
jasonmiciak@yahoo.com, @JasonMiciak and Substack: Much Left Ado
Jason Miciak is an associate editor and opinion writer for Occupy Democrats. He's a Canadian-American who grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He is a trained attorney, but for the last five years, he's devoted his time to writing political news and analysis. He enjoys life on the Gulf Coast as a single dad to a 15-year-old daughter. Hobbies include flower pots, cooking, and doing what his daughter tells him they're doing. Sign up to get all of my posts by email right here: