Coulter's Clueless

Here we go again. Same C-SPAN2 BookTV program with Ann Coulter from earlier:

Ann says, "If you want to live in a state that sells porno at the corner market, that allows naked dancing, and that let's people drive at 80 miles an hour, then you can live in that state. And if you don't like it, you can move. And at the end of the year we'll compare venereal rates." Well, Ann, I don't particularly want to live there (the 80 miles an hour part wouldn't be too bad), but I do want to live in a place where schools are sensibly funded. I want to live in a place where everyone can get healthcare without worrying about it. I want to live in a place where the general citizen can't own a gun, where two people who want to can get married can, and where the government doesn't get to tap my phone without some good quality oversight.

The problem for me is that that place doesn't really exist at the moment. Perhaps someday, but not now. Until I do have the option of moving to that state, what should I do? I should stay where I am and work through the existing political system to effect a change. That's what democracy is about. Democracy is not moving to where you agree with the laws; it is changing the laws where you are.

Democracy is about the collaborative process of improving the area you're in. People will disagree about what direction to take change, but that's the nature of human collaboration. It defeats the process to say, "If you don't like it then move." For someone who screams about democracy as much as she does, Ann ought to understand that.