Gov Purdue, we WANT you to worry about the next election

  The story all over the news today is North Carolina Governor Beverly Purdue's remark that it'd be great if we just skipped the next election and let the politicians do what they want to clean up the country without the voters holding any of their decisions against them:

“I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them — whatever decisions they make — to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that,” said the North Carolina governor, a Democrat. “You want people who don’t worry about the next election.”

  Naturally this created a hubbub, particularly in light of former Obama advisor Peter Orsag's plea to limit democracy:

To solve the serious problems facing our country, we need to minimize the harm from legislative inertia by relying more on automatic policies and depoliticized commissions for certain policy decisions. In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic.

  Now, mind you, the inertia was caused by the fact that the Tea Party Republicans did not go along with Democrats' plans to fundamentally transform restructure our society. See, if there were less democracy, then Democrats and politicians could do whatever they wanted without the pesky intervention of voters' wishes or contrary opinions.
  Sound like a democracy?  
  It's like those millionaire JERKS who want POTUS to raise their taxes. One even got up and whined about it the other day at an obviously scripted event. (Sidenote: don't POTUS and his people get tired of the scripting? the fainting women? the obviously preselected questioners? Mr. President: What has disappointed you the most?)
  Professor Jacobsen noticed that the millionaires don't want to have to pay for their own organization:

The Donate button leads to a donation page where these patriotic millionaires are happy to take your credit card billing information or allow you to pay via PayPal to support their efforts.
So how patriotic are these millionaires?
Not so patriotic that they will voluntarily pay extra taxes to the government, and not so patriotic that they will pay for their own campaign to raise other people’s taxes.

  So the Patriotic Millionaires can't be bothered to actually just donate charitably to the government or even pay for their own damn organization. What they'd like is to control the behavior of others who are not of like mind.
  All this hankering for millionaire higher taxes is about controlling the behavior of others.
  Peter Orsag's comments aren't about fixing the country. In his mind, fixing the country is about getting to do what he wants unfettered by others' disagreements.
  Which brings me back to Purdue, whose comments were obviously not comedic, as her people are trying to declare now. The woman claimed she wanted someone else to join her in her quest to suspend elections. (Sidenote: if we actually DID suspend elections, does anybody think we'd ever get them back?)
  Not only is Purdue under investigation, she also objected to and vetoed a voter ID law, claiming that it would deprive some people of their rights:

Besides being anti-democratic, Perdue’s proposal is also quite ironic. At the end of June, Perdue issued a press release trying to justify her veto of a voter-ID bill passed by the state legislature. In it, she said that the “right to choose our leaders is among the most precious freedoms we have — both as Americans and North Carolinians. North Carolinians who are eligible to vote have a constitutionally guaranteed right to cast their ballots, and no one should put up obstacles to citizens exercising that right.” She also erroneously claimed that the bill would “unnecessarily and unfairly disenfranchise many eligible and legitimate voters.” 

  So it's not that THEY should have to follow any rules or laws; they just want everyone else to have to do what THEY want. 
  Unfortunately, these people all share the same qualities. 
  And, Governor Purdue, we WON'T suspend elections because we WANT you to worry about your next election.
  We also want to be able to vote you OUT.