By Ben Shapiro

Last week, Gov. Mike Rounds of South Dakota signed legislation prohibiting abortion in the state except in cases where the mother’s life is in danger. The bill passed in the South Dakota Senate, 23-12. It passed in the South Dakota House of Representatives with flying colors, 50-18. Members of both political parties voted for the bill; the bill’s chief sponsor was Sen. Julie Bartling, a Democrat.
 
Naturally, Planned Parenthood has pledged its opposition to the law. Sarah Stoesz, CEO of Planned Parenthood in Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota, states that Planned Parenthood will gauge public feeling about the bill before choosing whether to litigate. “We haven’t decided yet. We’re trying to sort out our strategy,” she explained.

For Planned Parenthood, this should be an easy decision: Either the law is unconstitutional, or it is not. If the law is unconstitutional, filing a lawsuit is the only systemically correct decision — after all, the judiciary is supposedly the proper protector of individual rights. If the law is fully constitutional, it is disreputable to consider litigation as an alternative to the political process — filing a lawsuit to overturn fully constitutional public decision-making you don’t like is antithetical to our system of governance.

But this is what the American left has become: For the left, democratic processes are valid only when they win. If the left loses in the political process, they sue. The people are no longer integral to the process; politics is a heads-I-win-tails-I-sue scenario. When respect for the American people means so little that republicanism itself becomes secondary to certain political end-goals, our system of government is in serious trouble.
 
Yet if the past few years of politics teaches us anything, it is that for the political left, end-goals trump American democratic processes every time. “Democracy isn’t democracy,” the left argues, “unless we win.” That has been the message of the Democratic left since the 2000 election. How often have we seen the slogan “NOT MY PRESIDENT” plastered across a picture of George W. Bush? How often have we seen radical leftists declare that Republicans routinely steal elections? How often have we seen MoveOn.org members compare President Bush to Adolf Hitler? How often have we heard prominent Democrats like John Kerry describe the Bush administration as a “regime”?

Republicanism cannot survive such all-out assault. The principle of majoritarianism requires that communal decisions be respected, even as minorities try to persuade majorities to change their policies. Constitutional laws created through a legitimate political process are not binding only for those who vote for those laws. When leftists refuse to accept that President Bush is their president regardless of whether they voted for John Kerry, they undermine American republicanism.

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Another well written article about the obstructionism and unpatriotic actions of the American left. It is common knowledge in conservative circles that the left continue their assault on the American voter, denouncing them every chance they have. For example, you didn’t hear Al Gore saying democracy prevailed in the 2000 presidential election, when the clear winner was George W. Bush. You didn’t hear John Kerry or the liberal left saying democracy prevailed when Ohio gave George W. Bush 25 electoral votes and a second term as president.

I’ve heard so many times about how the Democratic Party wants to revamp their message. You would think the Democratic Party would clue into the fact that Americans don’t want socialism! They don’t want a party weak on defense running the defense of this country. People don’t want a party who had admitted to wanting to get rid of the tax cuts of 2003. Get a clue Dems! Americans don’t like your policies of socialism and obstruction!