The facts
Abdul El-Sayed praised the British democratic system as superior to America’s in a 2010 op-ed, arguing that the U.K. is better because it allows ethnic minority groups to concentrate more electoral power, the Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman reports.
El-Sayed’s 2010 opinion piece in the Guardian, headlined “UK democracy has upper hand on US,” detailed his experience attending a parliamentary candidate debate in East London. “As an American, born, bred, and taught in school that American democracy was the greatest in the world, I was initially sceptical of this foreign brand,” he wrote. “But what I experienced that evening [at the debate] was a ceremony in communal self-determination that I have yet to see in any federal American electoral institution.”
The experience, El-Sayed said, made him “a tad envious” of British democracy because “ethnic minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups are more concentrated in British constituencies” as opposed to the United States, where “the will of the majority drowns out the political voice of the disadvantaged.” He argued that he was unlikely to ever have the “opportunity to vote for an Arab-American candidate for national office” in the U.S.
There was one problem. “Despite El-Sayed’s claims about American politics, at the time of his op-ed at least 16 Arab Americans had already been elected to the U.S. House or Senate, including from El-Sayed’s home state of Michigan, where U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R.), a Lebanese-American, was elected in 1994 and served until 2000,” Goodman writes. “Months after El-Sayed’s op-ed was published in 2010, Rep. Justin Amash (R.), a Palestinian-American and Syrian-American, was elected to the U.S. House from Michigan.”
Our take
Abdul El-Sayed, a man who apparently gets his political science from a single night out in fucking East London, decided the entire American experiment was inferior because he felt a 'tad envious' of British constituencies. This prick wrote, with the full confidence of a man who has never opened a history book, that he was unlikely to ever have the 'opportunity to vote for an Arab-American candidate for national office' in the U.S. Unlikely, Abdul? You incompetent, preening asshole. At the exact moment your limp-dick op-ed hit the Guardian's website, at least 16 Arab Americans had already been elected to the U.S. House or Senate. One of them, Spencer Abraham, a Lebanese-American, was a United States Senator from your own home state of Michigan. He was elected in 1994, you fucking clown. He served for six years. He was gone before you even decided to grace the world with your ignorant, transatlantic hot take. You didn't need a lifetime to see this opportunity. You needed a five-second Google search or the basic fucking awareness of who represented your own state in the Senate for half a decade. But no, you were too busy being 'sceptical' - spelled with a c, because you're a pretentious cunt - of your own country after one debate abroad. The sheer, staggering vanity of flying to London, watching one fucking ceremony, and coming home to declare 230 years of constitutional government a failure because you personally hadn't noticed the Arab-American senator from your backyard is breathtaking. This isn't political analysis; it's the intellectual equivalent of shitting your pants and blaming the tailor. You constructed a whole grievance about the 'will of the majority drowning out the disadvantaged' while your own disadvantage was being too much of a self-important dickhead to read a Michigan voter guide. The op-ed's only proven value is as a monument to lazy, globe-trotting bullshit. It's the work of a grifter so convinced of his own profundity that he'll mourn the impossibility of a thing that literally already happened, in his state, while he was alive and presumably not in a coma. The 'upper hand' here isn't British democracy; it's your own head, lodged so far up your own ass that you mistook the inside of your colon for a foreign policy insight.
