{"id":9659,"date":"2025-02-08T12:47:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=9659"},"modified":"2025-02-08T12:47:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:47:32","slug":"participating-democrats-ngo-paid-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2025\/02\/participating-democrats-ngo-paid-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cParticipating democrats\u201d = &#8220;NGO-paid activists&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Elizabeth Nickson, Feb 08, 2025<\/mark><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">What the left has done is create something they call \u2018participatory democracy\u2019, which means that activists, paid by NGOs, fight any and all economic activity in every jurisdiction to the point where anyone with a brain says, like I did, \u201cWhy bother?\u201d This is why and how the activists live, on little bits of money doled out by NGOs and every level of government from every department (even libraries) and at every conceivable level: municipal, regional, state or provincial, and federal.<\/mark><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>No one else shows up at the meetings. <\/strong><\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">It is the participating democrats, all paid by us, and no one else. Because everyone else\u00a0<em>has a job<\/em>. And a family. And is busy. And trusting. And the levers of government are enormously complex and hard to decipher, which is deliberate. So the bureaucrats and legislators shrug and consent to whatever stupid anti-scientific thing they want. 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