12-01-2016, 08:10 PM
(12-01-2016, 07:45 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: 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.
Well said, and it appears to me that it will gradually dawn on more people, that the only course of action now (besides our own personal priorities) is resistance to tyranny here in the USA. And we can hope it stays on the first and not the second amendment level. We wouldn't want to see some "second amendment people" (like our dear Mr. X AD) having to use IT to speak.