12-01-2016, 07:45 PM
Classic X'er -- Donald Trump has been demanding ideological loyalty as no prior President has ever demanded. If this does not scare you, then you fail to understand how precarious democracy is.
He will be President of the United States, and we will be obliged to recognize the rights that go along with the office -- but nothing more. He has no right to expect that I will not use my First Amendment right to criticize the government at any level when it goes wrong. He cannot command me to align my thoughts and expressions with his. I will obey him no more than I will obey another President whose policies I generally despised (Dubya),
Be glad that I speak of using my First Amendment rights, and not of using my Second Amendment rights.
Resistance to any degradation of freedom is itself patriotism.
He will be President of the United States, and we will be obliged to recognize the rights that go along with the office -- but nothing more. He has no right to expect that I will not use my First Amendment right to criticize the government at any level when it goes wrong. He cannot command me to align my thoughts and expressions with his. I will obey him no more than I will obey another President whose policies I generally despised (Dubya),
Be glad that I speak of using my First Amendment rights, and not of using my Second Amendment rights.
Resistance to any degradation of freedom is itself patriotism.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.