Death of Democracy: The electorate in Romania chose Calin Georgescu as their president. But the West said NO

The electorate in Romania chose Calin Georgescu as their president. But the West said NO!  You see, Georgescu is opposed to US military bases on Romania’s border with Russia.  

So a Romanian judge was paid a bagful of money to cancel the election. The current president, whose term expires December 21, following Zelensky’s lead declared he would stay in office.

The Death of Democracy: I have wondered why Biden did not do the same thing.

The judge vacated the will of the Romanian people, because he ruled that Russia using the social media TikTok interfered with the election, writes Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, chairman of The Institute for Political Economy, former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, US Undersecretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration and an author of many books.  

The Death of Democracy: For reasons I don’t understand, when a newspaper endorses a candidate it is not interfering with an election. Neither is it interfering when plutocrats donate millions of dollars, thus purchasing the government to serve their interests.

Celebrities can endorse, etc., but it only is interference if it happens in social media and the result is not what the ruling elite require..

RELATED ARTICLES:

• We now live under Totalitarian Democracy – ‘requirement to agree with the state or else’
• Marxism infused DEI programs demonize the majority population – creating discrimination, hostility and division
• Trump replacing war with trade, opposing monopolistic powers: Jacksonianism
• Brilliant Analysis on How US Economy Was Destroyed and the One Percent Tyranny Implemented
• Corporatist Fascism: How the Left and the Right joined forces to kill Democracy and empower the Billionaire class

The Death of Democracy: The West also doesn’t accept the vote of the Georgian people who elected a parliament that is not hostile to Russia. That country’s president, a French citizen, says she won’t step down either.  

It seems democracy is no longer a Western value if it interferes with Western agendas. This reduces democracy to a cover for elite agendas.

About the author

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is the chairman of The Institute for Political Economy, former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, US Undersecretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration and an author of many books. He is a regular contributor to the Herland Report news site as well as The Herland Report TV interviews on YouTube. He has had careers in scholarship and academia, journalism, public service, and business. He has been awarded the Treasury Department’s Meritorious Service Award for “his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy.”