coming up on this episode of The Round Table.

What kills democracy?

Democracy dies when people who think the Constitution is racist

and that natural rights are a figment

of the imagination of old white, dead white man,

turn over the control of setting the rules of the regime

to a class of functionaries who cannot be removed from power

by voting, and then conscript a mass of people who hardly

would even recognize citizenship if it slapped them in the face

to put a rubber or plebiscitary stamp

on whatever the ruling class chunks out day in and day out.

That's how democracy dies.

And the fact that there isn't even the slightest whiff,

there isn't even a grain of acknowledgment

that this is something that is not, oh no,

a what if around the corner,

but something that has already happened

and something that we've been living with for years.

I mean, it's just disqualifying.

There's no point in trying to engage with this material.

Welcome everyone to the American Mind, the publishers

and editors podcast.

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