Bush insists he's fighting for democracy every time somebody criticizes him for the Iraqi war, surveillance, water-boarding, supporting Ethiopian militia in Somalia, the list goes on. What sort of warped idea of democracy does he have in mind?? And what sort of a government points fingers at oppressive regimes and corrupt officials of other countries and still allows its president to wield unchecked power? Both parties have again and again disappointed not only Americans, but the world as a whole. America is kidding itself, there's no way that it can convince other nations to become more democratic when the very poster boy of the "democratic interventionist" is denying civil liberties to its own citizens. And with all of this controversy surfacing during an election year, the message is clear: parliamentary democracy is boring, but also functional.

Bush insists he's fighting for democracy every time somebody criticizes him for the Iraqi war, surveillance, water-boarding, supporting Ethiopian militia in Somalia, the list goes on. What sort of warped idea of democracy does he have in mind?? And what sort of a government points fingers at oppressive regimes and corrupt officials of other countries and still allows its president to wield unchecked power? Both parties have again and again disappointed not only Americans, but the world as a whole. America is kidding itself, there's no way that it can convince other nations to become more democratic when the very poster boy of the "democratic interventionist" is denying civil liberties to its own citizens. And with all of this controversy surfacing during an election year, the message is clear: parliamentary democracy is boring, but also functional.

So, basically... this is Carlson's argument:

- Let's withhold the truth from the public when a "powerful person"tells us to do so.

- In withholding the truth, we will gain trust from "powerful people", who will then continue to tell us the truth.

- And the objective of getting "powerful people"to tell us the truth is so that we can withhold it from the public to gain even more trust.

Ermm, what?? How is that even logical?