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USA TODAY, November 8, 2017<\/h2>\n

Trump election anniversary and progressives’ delusional race to save democracy<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

Some liberals think increasing government power will repair our broken civic life. But it would destroy the tattered remnants of federal legitimacy.<\/em><\/p>\n

Responding to the anniversary of Donald Trump\u2019s election, The\u00a0Washington Post Magazine<\/em> presented \u201c38 ideas for repairing our badly broken civic life<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0Post Magazine<\/em> editor Richard Just explained that \u201call of us …\u00a0should be able to agree that some future-pondering about the state of our democracy is in order.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many \u2014\u00a0if not most \u2014\u00a0of the\u00a0Post\u2019s<\/em> recommendations from experts, artists, and writers are insipid or authoritarian. But they provide an excellent snapshot of progressive thinking after nearly one year of Trump era tumult.<\/p>\n

*Author Kristin Henderson proposes conscripting all young people for three years in military or government civilian work such as\u00a0AmeriCorps. Forcing adults to \u201cspend time in compulsory service to our country\u201d would be the same as going back to \u201ckindergarten and relearn how to cooperate and share our toys.\u201d But the Founding Fathers never intended to treat personal freedom as a political toy.<\/p>\n

*The best fix for American democracy is to \u201coutlaw private education\u201d to banish inequity, according to novelist Ann Patchett. In the name of equality, parents must be prohibited any choice or effective role in their children\u2019s schooling.\u00a0Patchett also rhapsodized about confiscating Ivy League endowments to redistribute to state schools. Artist George Lois supplemented Patchett\u2019s point with a poster proclaiming \u201cThere\u2019s an OUCH in every Voucher.\u201d But the pain is\u00a0suffered by teacher unions<\/a>, not by parents desperate to find escapes from educational hell holes.<\/p>\n

*According to basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, \u201cThe solution is to teach mandatory critical thinking in every year of public school from first through 12th grade.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0He predicts that \u201cBreitbart, Fox News and Donald Trump would melt under the scrutiny of logic.\u201d But is it rational to expect\u00a0schools that dismally fail to teach reading<\/a>\u00a0will miraculously transform kids into great thinkers?<\/p>\n

*American University professor Ibram X. Kendi called for an \u201cAnti\u2011Bigotry Amendment that would constitutionalize a critical principle: Group inequity is evidence of discrimination. The amendment would make group inequity illegal and ban the incitement of bigotry… Claims that inequity is evidence of a group\u2019s dysfunction or inferiority would be outlawed.\u201d Kendi\u2019s fix, which parallels “antifa\u2019s<\/a>” (antifacist) demands, would torpedo the First Amendment by criminalizing practically any criticism of racial and ethnic groups.<\/p>\n

*Domingo Martinez, a Texas novelist, portrays \u201cgun addiction\u201d as a national \u201cdemon\u201d and advocates forcing gun owners to buy insurance (presumably at prohibitive rates) to deter firearm ownership.\u00a0If gun insurance rates were set based on homicide rates (the same way that auto insurance rates are set in part based on local collision data) \u2014\u00a0residents\u00a0of East St. Louis<\/a>, Illinois might\u00a0be charged 70 times higher rates than New Hampshire<\/a>\u00a0residents.\u00a0In Maryland, firearm insurance rates could be more\u00a0than five\u00a0times higher in Baltimore<\/a> than in Allegheny County\u00a0in the western part of the state, based on the vast difference in homicide rates.\u00a0But such disparities\u00a0would violate the Anti-Bigotry Amendment championed by Professor Kendi.<\/p>\n

*Harvard professor Dani Rodrik proposes to boost democracy by vastly expanding government economic intervention, empowering government to become \u201cco\u2011owner of the new generation of technologies and machines\u201d to create the \u201cinnovation state.\u201d However, the crony capitalism debacles of recent years (such as the Obama administration\u2019s Solyndra scandal<\/a>) should have stifled any such suggestion.<\/p>\n

*Carl Gershman, the president-for-life<\/a> of the federal National Endowment for Democracy,\u00a0calls for cultivating Americans\u2019 \u201csense of gratitude\u201d by forging \u201cmore links between Americans and people in other countries who are fighting for the basic freedoms that we enjoy.\u201d So the \u201clinks\u201d from\u00a0deploying American troops in 172 nations<\/a>\u00a0are not sufficient? It is considered bad taste in Washington to recognize foreigners\u2019 gratitude when the U.S. does not meddle in their nations or elections.*<\/p>\n

*”Celebrate government\u201d is the solution proffered by University of California law professor Joan Williams. She urged Americans to use the hashtag #GovernmentStillWorksForUs and make videos thanking government for the water from their faucets and the safe milk for their breakfast cereal.\u00a0Anything government does should be considered manna from heaven, regardless of the\u00a0$3 trillion in taxes<\/a>\u00a0the feds commandeer from citizens each year.<\/p>\n

Some of these \u201cdemocracy fixes\u201d would destroy the tattered remnants of federal legitimacy.\u00a0Sending in federal marshals or the National Guard to shut down private schools would be far more explosive than when\u00a0Eisenhower sent in the 101st Airborne<\/a>\u00a0to de-segregate Little Rock, Ark. Sending federal agents door-to-door to seize uninsured firearms would produce endless havoc and bloodshed. Forcing all young people to forfeit several years of their lives to AmeriCorps or the military would spur mass bitterness and pervasive resistance. Giving politicians and bureaucrats new pretexts (such as equalizing income between groups) to confiscate and redistribute paychecks would\u00a0severely discourage \u201clabor force participation<\/a>\u201d \u00a0\u2014\u00a0i.e., working for a living.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There are plenty of other perilous reform proposals floating around nowadays \u2013 including\u00a0banning negative campaign ads<\/a> (to assure that voters think well of their future rulers), shutting down the Electoral College<\/a> (thereby practically awarding California the prerogative to select the next president), banning contributions to political candidates<\/a> (thereby guaranteeing an even higher rate of incumbent reelection),\u00a0forcing television networks to provide free time for political advertisements<\/a> (as if viewers were not suffering enough), and creating a new federal oversight agency to replace the utterly dysfunctional Federal Election Commission<\/a>. Unfortunately, almost no one is proposing reforms that would compel politicians and federal agencies to obey the Constitution \u2014\u00a0one reform that could do more than any other to put a damper on mass cynicism.<\/strong><\/div>\n

Do some reformers still see average Americans as a \u201cbasket of deplorables<\/a>\u201d who need to be muzzled, disarmed, regimented\u00a0and force-fed correct opinions? The\u00a0Washington Post\u2019s<\/em> new motto is \u201cDemocracy Dies in Darkness.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0But democracy also dies from too many Iron Fists. At a time when\u00a0only 20% of Americans trust\u00a0the feds to do the right thing, any reforms that sharply increase coercion will make \u201cconsent of the governed\u201d an even more distant mirage.<\/p>\n

James Bovard,\u00a0author of\u00a0<\/em>Attention Deficit Democracy<\/a>,\u00a0is\u00a0a member of USA TODAY\u2019s\u00a0Board of Contributors. Follow him on Twitter:\u00a0@JimBovard<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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