Democrats tried to keep the Green Party off the North Carolina ballot. In an ironic move they said they were trying to prevent voter fraud. Their undemocratic attempt failed. The Green Party will be on the ballot.
North Carolina certifies the Green Party, which could allow it onto the Senate ballot
There are reports of people trying to get signers to rescind their signatures when there were found to be enough valid signatures.
North Carolina's Green Party says Democrats are working to keep it off 2022 ballot
The North Carolina Board of Elections voted to allow the Green Party to be on the ballot. Thus dashing another undemocratic move by the Democrat Party.
I'm fine with this. Do you think people shouldn't be? If so, why? How do you suggest people should react? The Democrats are the last, best hope against Republican authoritarianism. The Green Party is an impediment to that. The Democrats obeyed the law and respected its judgment.
Are you of the opinion that the Democrats owe something to the Republicans, some standard of behavior beyond obeying the law?
I frequently answered conservatives who claimed that election had been stolen with the same answer: I don't believe you, but do you think I ought to have objected if I did? If it were a fact that the only thing keeping Trump out of the White House for a second term was stealing the election, why wouldn't liberals applaud that? Perhaps your answer is that it would be undemocratic. It is not hypocrisy to suspend democratic principle to preserve democracy, just as it is not hypocritical to be intolerant of the intolerant, or for a pacifist to go to war to defend a peaceful society from an aggressor. If you disagree, please explain why.
Or perhaps you believe that the Democrats owe the Republicans a degree of respect and forbearance for being fellow Americans and partners in governance - the loyal opposition so to speak. If you do, please state how and why. It is my position that the Republicans are owed nothing, and that the Democrats ought to do to the Republicans whatever they find to be expedient, and that it is impossible to be unfair to them.
Or perhaps you are suggesting that people who love democracy abandon this antidemocratic party and vote Republican instead.
This is why whataboutism doesn't play in discussions of Democrats versus Republicans. If one supports Americanism - the principles that inform the Constitution such as democracy, egalitarianism, personal protected freedoms, church-state separation, the peaceful transfer of power - one simply can't do worse that vote Republican, and doing so is never a viable alternative whatever the Democrats do. Who would be the worst Democratic candidate for president for somebody who embraces those principles? Manchin or Sinema? Neither could be worse than just about any prominent Republican.
