Democrats continually lecture us on things that they claim are “existential threats to democracy.”  It’s as though they think that, because the word “Democrat” has roots in the word “democracy” they’re the final word on what does or doesn’t threaten “our democracy.”  They are wrong on so many fronts.  First of all, the United States isn’t a pure democracy.  According to Merriam-Webster, a pure democracy is a form of government in which the power is exercised directly by the people rather than through representatives.  That’s not our government.  We might forgive Democrats however, as Merriam-Webster also tells us that the word “democracy” is used to describe a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people, and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation, usually involving periodically held free elections.  In other words, a representative democracy, which is much closer to the government we’re supposed to have.  Remember the prophetic words of Benjamin Franklin who, when asked, “what type of government have you given us?” said, “A republic, if you can keep it.”  We managed to keep it for 234 years, but then the Woke Democrat Left took control.  And because to them, facts no longer matter, the truth no longer matters, and reality no longer matters, Democrats have appointed themselves the supreme arbiters of threats to “our democracy.”  I’ll boil it down for you.  To the Woke Imbecile Left, anything that endangers their ability to continue to wield unbridled Fascist-Socialist power is, “a threat to our democracy.”  In this, the Left is as screwed up in the head as on most things, because their premise, as with all things Woke, is false.  Let’s consider some of the things that the Left has labelled “threats to our democracy.”  The greatest “threat to our democracy” according to the Left is, you guessed it, Donald Trump.  They were saying that before he was elected President.  Once again, we might want to cut them some slack on this one, because when they say “our democracy” what they mean is the government into which our republican form of government has evolved, namely, a system in which rich bastards from both major Parties get elected time after time by promising to do the bidding of the voters, while actually ignoring them, feathering their own nests, making money by insider trading, lying, cheating, screwing all political opponents, and then leaving office only to make more money by becoming lobbyists.  You know, “our” democracy.  Think of La Cosa Nostra, “this thing of ours.”  It’s really the same thing.  When Don Corleone mused, “Senator Corleone,  Governor Corleone,” he didn’t know how right he was.  According to the Left, Trump was and is a threat to democracy because he dared to run and further dared to win election.  They now say, should he be reelected, that would be “the greatest threat to democracy.”  Once again, that’s by the Leftist definition of democracy, not the real definition.  One would think that if the American people choose to reelect Donald Trump in a free election, that would be the very essence of democracy, but not for the Left.  Take the recent case of Liz Cheney.  She chose to vote to impeach Trump, twice.  She then chose to sit on the January 6th Kangaroo Court, uh, I mean Committee, and she’s repeatedly denounced Trump as “a threat to our democracy.”  Last week, she lost her Republican primary in Wyoming by 37%.  The result was best summed up by Steve Bannon, who noted that, after all Cheney’s ranting about democracy, she had received “a democracy suppository.”  I couldn’t put it any better.  I guess you have to watch what you ask for.  Democrats also say gerrymandering is a threat to democracy.  But only when they’re not doing it.  When they create a district two blocks wide and 97 miles long it enhances “equity” and strengthens “democracy.”  Any Republican redistricting is, by definition, racist and “undemocratic.”  Of course, they’ve forgotten, if they ever knew, that Elbridge Gerry, the man for whom the practice is named, was a member of the”Democratic-Republican” Party, the ancestor of today’s Democrats.  No matter.  That’s reality, and, I’m sure reality also is a threat to our democracy.  Democrats also say the Supreme Court is a threat to democracy, when it doesn’t agree with them.  Biden spokes-imbecile Karine Jean-Pierre even has said that the Court’s recent abortion decision was “unconstitutional.”  Of course, the Court is in the Constitution, and making those decisions is its job, so I guess that means that the Constitution itself is a threat to democracy.  Don’t laugh, the Left really believes that.  According to the Woke nuts, the electoral college is a threat, and the section of the Constitution that puts State Legislatures in charge of their elections and choosing electors is a threat.  You get that?  Elections conducted in accordance with the supreme law of the land threaten democracy.  Creating and enforcing immigration laws is in the Constitution.  Guess what?  They say that’s also a threat to democracy.  What else?  Oh yes.  Having only two Senators from each State is a threat.  There would be no United States without that provision, but who you gonna believe?  The Founding Fathers, or some Communist professor who’s never had a real job?  Oh right, another major threat is “election deniers.”  These are people who dare to complain after being screwed by voter fraud that results in the elections of Democrats.  How dare they?  Of course, if Bush or Trump wins an election, denying the result isn’t a threat, it’s a virtue.  If you’re getting the impression that Democrats are either grossly ignorant, or else are duplicitous lying bastards, you’re on the right track.  Which is not to suggest that the Republican Party is blameless.  Far from it.  The inconvenient truth is that the true state of our government was neatly summed up more than 50 years ago by the writers Thomas Dye and Harmon Ziegler, in their book, The Irony of Democracy.  In it, Dye and Ziegler revealed the uncomfortable truth.  The U.S. isn’t a democracy.  The little people don’t rule.  It’s not even a classic republic.  Instead, it’s what is sometimes called an oligarchy.  A system run by a small number of the very rich.  Dye and Ziegler concluded that it was a good thing the people don’t rule, for if left to a popular vote, many of our constitutional freedoms would be cancelled.  Better to let the elites lead, to protect the system.  The trouble with their hypothesis today is that too many elites (think Woke billionaires) are committed to the cancellation of our constitutional rights and the destruction of our system.  Maybe it’s time for a new book, The Perils of Oligarchy.  Maybe the populists would do a better job.  It’s not a new debate.  Federalist Alexander Hamilton favored the elites, declaring “the people is a beast.”  In contrast, Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson mused, “a little rebellion now and then is a good thing.”  Which philosophy will prevail?  Only time will tell.