{"id":30832,"date":"2020-10-10T18:29:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T23:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30832"},"modified":"2020-10-10T18:29:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T23:29:15","slug":"earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/10\/earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Landgrebe Award Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Mike Lee (R-UT):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democracy isn\u2019t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity are.  We want the human condition to flourish.  Rank democracy can thwart that.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenMikeLee\/status\/1314089207875371008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A great-sounding excuse for keeping Trump, and indeed the entire Republican Party, as corrupt and immoral as it is, in power. In fact, David Harsanyi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/mike-lee-is-right-about-democracy\/\">buys enthusiastically<\/a> into it.<\/p>\n<p>But it doesn&#8217;t work. From Democracy, built on a backbone of justice unswayed by popular passions, attended to by minds and hands reverent to its rational sanctity, trusted by those enabled by it, <em><strong>flows<\/strong><\/em> liberty, peace, and prosperity. Not in spite of it, nor unswayed by it, but because of it. That&#8217;s what makes Lee&#8217;s magical formula fail, utterly and completely.<\/p>\n<p>Harsanyi&#8217;s piece, which appears to be little more than an excuse for cheap shots at people he despises, doesn&#8217;t address this central tenet of the system concocted and refined by the Founding Fathers.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re wondering about my phrase <em>reverent to its rational sanctity<\/em>, that means <em>magical thinkers need not apply<\/em>. The one thing democracy requires is a substantial, majority substantially devoted to rationality. A cacophony of magical thinkers, each disdainful of the next, and ready to condemn them for their ignorance, will merely cause democracy to fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Mike Lee (R-UT): Democracy isn\u2019t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that. &mdash; Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) October 8, 2020 A great-sounding excuse for keeping Trump, and indeed the entire Republican Party, as corrupt and immoral as it \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/10\/earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-7\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30833,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30832\/revisions\/30833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}