Oct 31 2004
Primary function
The primary function of democracy is not to elect good leaders, since nobody can predict in advance how a politician will perform. It is to eject leaders who have manifestly failed. The ability to remove leaders who turn out to be corrupt, dangerous, outrageously dishonest or manifestly incompetent is the primary privilege and duty of any democracy. And if any leader in our lifetime deserved to be ejected by voters, regardless of their ideology or political persuasion, it is surely President Bush.
I wish there existed a journalist in the United States with the guts to write that.
Update: Maureen Dowd comes close today. Read her column.
One Response to “Primary function”
Amen.