The Democrats' Blueprint For Permanent Power

Authored by Stu Cvrk via American Greatness,

The Constitution supplies legitimate ways to change those rules via the constitutional amendment process and nearly every item on the Democrat agenda is designed to bypass it.

Every generation of Americans is told that some emergency justifies setting the Constitution aside just this once. Today's "emergency" comes with a slogan: saving democracy. Strip away the branding, and the Democrat Party's structural agenda looks like something entirely different - and reminiscent of the old Bolsheviki power play 100 years ago but recast for gaining control of U.S. institutions. Two new states, a packed Supreme Court, the end of the filibuster, an end run around the Electoral College, federal control of elections, and a government apparatus for policing "disinformation" are not a plan to save democracy. Taken together, they are a plan to make a future Democrat Party majority permanent. That was the Bolsheviki goal, too.

Let's examine their plan in detail.

THE DESIGN THEY WANT TO DISMANTLE

The Framers did not trust majorities, and they did not trust themselves. James Madison put it plainly in Federalist No. 51: "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition." The Senate's equal representation (the "Great Compromise"), the Electoral College, life tenure for judges, and the states' control of their own electi