Glimpses Of Democracy Wisdom Amongst The Republican Democracy Drama

Since instant gratification is increasingly the goal in American society, the overreaction to Republicans’ failure to immediately elect a Speaker of the U.S. House might not be noteworthy, but glimpses of a founding father’s democracy wisdom on display within the Republican democracy drama to name a Speaker, are very noteworthy!!!

Mainstream news media and Democrats have wrongly described the 15 rounds of voting to elect a new Speaker of the House as dysfunction and chaos, nothing could be further from the truth. It is true however that taking 15 rounds of voting to elect a Speaker is quite unusual. Ironically the same news media that described the 15 rounds of voting as dysfunction and chaos, in the same breath informed us that there have been 14 other instances of Speaker elections requiring multiple ballots to elect a Speaker, therefore 15 rounds of a constitutional process following constitutional procedure rules can’t be dysfunctional or chaotic.

The 15 rounds over 4 days might have been inconvenient or chaotic to or for the news media to cover, it was time-consuming, it occurred at inconvenient times, it was boring at times, it was…