Undoing Democracy

Yahoo! News - Labor Group Backs Davis in Calif. Recall

The above link leads to one of the hundreds of articles published on a daily basis regarding the upcoming California recall election. Despite all the media attention the election has been getting, it doesn't appear to strike a chord with people here in the Midwest. Granted, Gray Davis is not our governor. But the deliberate effort to subvert the democratic process--and the willingness to rerun an election over and over, at great expense to taxpayers, until the desired result is obtained--seems not to disturb the American public. Davis may not be popular. He may be doing a terrible job--or he may be faced with problems that no governor can fix as quickly as the electorate would like. Either way, he was ELECTED less than a year ago. The people of California made their choice, and part of the beauty of democracy is that, for several years following an election, a leader can govern based on what he or she thinks is right rather than tailoring every stance and action to the latest polling data. Efforts like this recall will suck away the last vestiges of courage in our nation's political leaders. We should all think twice about what the California recall election really means, whether we live there or not.