Media Bias

-By Dan Scott

With the recent pushback by the public against the rushing legislative juggernaut of Pelosi, Reid and Obama, they have suffered a loss of credibility. The DNC has begun running ads basically saying paid mobs by the GOP and insurance industry are trying to derail Healthcare Reform. The problem for Democrats with such a strategy is it is an exercise in self-delusion leading to defeat. The old dictum of “the customer is always right” tells us if you want to sell something you don’t insult, belittle, or dismiss the customer. No matter how correct you believe yourself to be, an angry customer is not one whom will not be returning to your establishment anytime soon. The Democrats are operating under the delusion that since they won the election, they have the unchallengeable right to do as they please. The public has responded accordingly. Hilariously, the DNC ads actually imply that conservatives and GOP voters are sore losers preventing the will of the majority.

A sore loser may act in bad form, but an ungracious winner is far more unacceptable and immature. But let’s examine this idea of sore loser as implied by the DNC. The idea of an election in a Republic is to represent the interests of the majority with deference to the point of not trampling on the rights of the minority. In the most elementary form, any person elected to public office does not just represent those who voted for them otherwise they would not have any credibility and more importantly would lack the authority to legitimately govern all the people. Our system of government is based on SELF GOVERNANCE, which means the governed have to CONSENT to any action by those who would govern. This consent is not merely a one time iron clad commitment granted as a blank check upon winning a popularity contest, it is EARNED by the consistent representation of the governed who in turn continue to consent. While the public reasonably gives the benefit of the doubt (Public Trust) to elected officials, it is the responsibility of the elected officials to keep faith with this trust as they represented it. Any misrepresentation by someone campaigning for office is a violation of the public trust and voids any claim of legitimacy even if they garner a majority of votes by such a misrepresentation. An interesting side note here, Robert Gibbs when recognizing the government of Iran as legitimate by virtue of an obvious fraudulent election seemed to choke on that statement. At some level, even Gibbs realizes an election does not necessarily confer legitimacy.
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