Opinion: Democracy Must be Suspended Permanently To Prevent It's Destruction
For the Greater Good
Guest Opinion Essay by Professor John Goldberg Ph.D.
There was a time in America when despite our differences, we could agree on fundamental principles about our democracy. We had bonds that went beyond political stripe; a common goal to pursue the American dream. But today we live in different times. Today, we the responsible, sensible, empathetic, educated, virtuous, just, and equitable, share our country with a racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, anti-science, cult.
This cult has not just beliefs, but “principles”, that defy everything it means to be an American. They say they believe in “freedom”, “liberty”, “free speech”, “the bill of rights”, “the constitution”… but is that what they really mean?
Of course not. What they really mean is “freedom to be a racist anti-vaxxing transphobe”, “the liberty to spread my legs on a chair and breathe fresh air while infecting the elderly”, “free hate bigot speech”, “the bill of hitler”, “the fascist constitution of colonizers”. But they’ll never admit it. They’ll never admit that secretly their goals are to completely destroy our precious, fragile democracy. But they don’t need to admit it. Their silence only incriminates them further.
Imagine if you will, a cult so radicalized, that they don’t want to be force injected with a serum of unknown ingredients with a risk of heart disease, manufactured by a corporation that has paid billions of dollars in criminal fees for committing fraud, and have been granted complete liability immunity, every few months for the rest of their lives, for a disease they’re not at risk of. They actually believe governments should not be violating the “Nuremberg Code”, and that humans should have informed consent!
But not even that is the limit to their delusions and lunacy. These radicals don’t even think our democracy should demand corporations censor any dissenting opinions! They think we should respect the “constitution” and the “bill of rights” and that freedom of speech is an inalienable human right.
These racists believe that you should treat people based on their actions and not based on the color of their skin, or their gender, or their religion, or the sexual orientation… on and on they are against the idea of treating people differently based on immutable characteristics. An idea that is so detestable it almost makes me sick just thinking about it, but they wake up every morning and just choose to wrap themselves in hate.
And when they are not being hateful they are being paranoid and delusional. They have somehow convinced themselves that elites who rape children should not be trusted. It would be comical if it weren’t so dangerous.
But nothing is as scary as their denial of science. These uneducated, dark-age troglodytes don’t think paying more taxes will change the weather. I don’t even know where to begin unpacking this one. They simply refuse to trust the scientists our government employs, and instead believe science should be “debated”. The scariest part is that these raving hysterics don’t believe the world is going to end in a few years unless we give up all our rights, wealth, property, dignity, and humanity. They simply refuse to become gray soulless automatons, toiling away for the elites benefit.
These ideas are not just absurd, but they are dangerous to our way of life, and to our democracy itself. That is why we must suspend our democracy, so we can prevent these malcontents from suspending our democracy. But it won’t be enough to simply round up all these unmentionables and purge them. Because their ideas are so dangerous, they may spring back up at any moment. We must maintain eternal vigilance.
To preserve democracy we must suspend elections, we must show our papers, we must censor everything but the party line, we must leave behind the primitive idea of freedom and human rights, and accept our rightful place beneath our masters, forever. It is the only way to save our democracy.
For the greater good.
Professor Goldman has worked at UC Berkeley for over a decade studying gender critical non-binary Transdynamics. He has published many works such as “Die Racist”, “Sorry Not Sorry”, and “Transdynamics: A Definitive Edition”. Keep an eye out for his new book “The Death of Democracy” coming soon!