Bill Kristol's Alternate Universe for our Democracy

I taped FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace and watched it last night. I do it to check out the FOX take on the week's political news - always entertaining and usually a different slant from the other Sunday news talk shows. Bill Kristol is always there pontificating about what is occurring in his alternate universe. Here is an example of his thinking about the Justice Department suing Arizona over their immigration law:

KRISTOL: Bad law -- I mean, I think it's -- I'm sorry, the bad lawsuit. Also, it just -- it shows a disrespect for democracy. When in doubt, let the voters and let the state legislatures have their way. If there's a clear abrogation of someone's individual right, of course, then the federal government can step in. This is, at best -- at best -- a very murky case. And instead of waiting for the law to go into effect, instead of taking the attitude of let's see what happens with the private lawsuits that have been -- that have been filed, the Obama administration is stepping in and trying to override the democratically legislated laws of Arizona.

First, if the Justice Department had sued Arizona under George Bush, I wonder if Kristol would have thought that showed disrespect for democracy.

Second, students should be required to take a civics courses (perhaps, adults, too) because people like Kristol can come on TV and make remarks that do not conform to our Constitution and laws, but sound good and people will shake their heads and say, "Yes, he's right." Yesterday, he said that the suit shows a disrespect for democracy. He just drops verbal bombs like that and continues to talk without anyone contradicting him. If the voters in states had had their way, we would still have Jim Crow Laws and separate schools for African Americans among other discriminations. Think about how different our country could have looked. Sometimes, the minority needs protection from the majority, but you won't hear that from the TV commentators who are there, not to enlighten viewers, but to promote their own ideologies, at least in Kristol's case.