Notes from the Resistance
“We gotta get back to teaching there is a right or wrong or, I agree with everybody here, we’re going to have to get rid of the Second Amendment, we’re going to have to get rid of Freedom of Speech, we’re going to have to get rid of freedom of assembly,” Gohmert said. “This Constitution won’t work the way we are teaching children.” [More]
Not that doing those things will actually invalidate the rights they articulate, but like Mr. Adams warned us…
[Via bondmen]
Like other analysts who study democracy, he views the Trump faction that now dominates the Republican Party—what he terms the “MAGA movement”—as the U.S. equivalent to the authoritarian parties in places such as Hungary and Venezuela. It is a multipronged, fundamentally antidemocratic movement… [More]
Talk about projection writ large.
It’s not us trying to ban the right of the people to keep and bear arms– most egalitarian power-sharing and tyranny-nullifying arrangement ever devised. And it’s not us “perfecting the language” to eradicate “forbidden speech.”
As for “antidemocratic,” not really. It’s just, like the Founders, we embrace and defend the system of checks and balances — along with a Bill of Rights intended to be immune to mob rule — to keep a manipulated majority from falling for tyranny-imposing swindlers.
[Via DDS]
