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Disdain for democracy

Future of Capitalsim criticizes Thomas Friedman's column, The election that wasn't on ecomomic grounds.

What's astonishing to me is that this year's midterms elections are one of the most defining elections of recent times. Yet Friedman dismisses it because the results appear not be going the way he wants them to.

If we were a serious country, this is what the midterms would be about: How do we generate the jobs needed to sustain our middle class and pay for new infrastructure?

The question is being addressed, though perhaps not in Friedman's terms, all around the country. We have a government that just expanded the scope of government's reach. Citizens are questioning whether this expansive government is a good idea. That's what elections should be about.

Of course Thomas Friedman knows better. As James Taranto reminded us the other day, the idiotic Thomas Friedman doesn't much believe in democracy.

"I have fantasized-don't get me wrong-but that what if we could just be China for a day? I mean, just, just, just one day. You know, I mean, where we could actually, you know, authorize the right solutions."

Apparently for Friedman, having elections means "authorizing the right solutions" not given power to people who are less enlightened than he is.

Is there another American columnist who is so contemptuous of the freedom that allows him to earn a handsome salary by spouting such arrant nonsense?