Tucker Carlson criticized the state of American democracy during an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience.
He argued it is dishonest to call the U.S. system a democracy when the government ignores popular opinion on key issues.
“What makes it particularly galling and hard to live with is when you call that system a democracy, right? That’s too dishonest for me,” Carlson said. “I would much rather live in a monarchy where everyone thinks the king has been assigned by God to rule over us and his whims are law and you know, that makes sense, I don’t like it, but at least it has internal coherence.”
As an example, he pointed to the recent foreign aid package sending billions to Ukraine and other countries despite lack of support from Americans.
Carlson said people are driven insane by leaders ignoring domestic problems citizens want addressed, while “calling Congress over the weekend to pass something that people don’t want.”
“When they they’re ignoring the actual problems in our country like the economy and the border and they’re calling in Congress over the weekend to pass something that people don’t want while ignoring the things that people do want,” Carlson said. “And if they do the same kind of thing again and again for like 50 years and they call it a democracy that will drive you insane. Because it’s just too dishonest.”
He suggested it would be more honest for leaders to simply say “we don’t give a [expletive] what you want, we’re getting something out of this” rather than lectures about defending democracy.
“Why not just say, ‘we don’t give a [expletive] what you want, we are getting something out of this Ukraine funding.’ Whether it’s like the thrill of being masters of the universe, or whether it’s money from the defense contractors, whatever we’re getting out of it is more important to us than your opinion, this is not self-government you don’t run this country, we do, shut up and obey,” he added.
Carlson stated that this is no longer self-government by the people and if it’s not going to be a democracy, leaders should stop “lying” and saying it is.
“If they at least said that you’d be like, ok, I get it, those are the terms. But if I get another [expletive] lecture from Joe Scarborough about defending democracy, when this is not a democracy, it’s not even a close approximation of a democracy, then I’m gonna go crazy because I just can’t deal with the lying.”
