Given my increasingly jaundiced view of the democratic process as it exists in this age of ubiquitous media feeding the incessant cupidity of the superficial for the fools gold of trite bemusement and instant gratification - given that shouldn't I be a supporter of Obama since his socialist designs are essentially undemocratic and seek to overthrow the American system of 'negative rights' and replace it with the wise counsel of an enlightened aristocracy made viable by the obsequious support of a majority granting underclass that is ever dependent on it?
Well, no. I'm being overtaken by a cancerous cynicism not a consumptive stupidity. Still, does raise an interesting question: what exactly do I believe? How would I defend democracy if I was going to defend it? If I think it's vital, absolutely necessary that Romney, for all his flaws, defeat Obama, can I legitimately do so if I no longer believe or can maintain a serviceable faith in democracy? Or is it I just haven't figured out yet how to defend democracy given all the bad stuff that is happening but still have the sense that those 'negative rights' need to be defended because the alternatives to such are all roads to where Hayek said they went?
I dunno. Think it's the latter.
