02-07-2020, 07:10 PM
(02-06-2020, 05:00 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(02-06-2020, 04:28 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(02-06-2020, 07:19 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Does anyone have any remaining question that the Republican party has become, at least in the House and Senate, an authoritarian party capable of defending any misdeed of the President in the defense of its power? Does anyone doubt its willingness to lie, cheat, steal, and perhaps rig elections on behalf of the President and his Party?
No room remains for any judgment of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of integrity and venality, or shortsightedness and vision within the GOP.
The essence of fascism is Bolshevik methods in the service of a reactionary agenda. Mussolini learned much from Lenin.
I assume that you are the authority in matters that directly relate to you. I'll already informed you that you are free to give up all your rights and go along with the liberals and continue believing whatever they want you to believe and continue believing in them and their goodness and all their promises too. You are free to vote against us and free to talk bad about us and free to ignore a political system loaded with super delegates and free to ignore the crap a group of fellow liberals pulled in the House and free to agree with your so called President in liberal terms or The Speaker of the House in American terms and even agree with her petty/third rate liberal view of her worthless and despicable accomplishment and continue doing a good job of convincing us to let go you and cut all ties with you like they want these days. Like I've said, a clear line of distinction between us and them is already being drawn right now between the two societies. In case you haven't been paying attention or up on current events, the reactionary agenda is now squarely on your side and no longer hidden like it was 20 years ago.
"Give up all your rights" ha ha. = give up your "right" to own and carry weapons of war with which you can blow away hundreds of innocent people. I don't think Mr. Brower will miss that right too much if it goes away.
Our fellow liberals in the House did their duty.
Pelosi has passed more good legislation than Drumpface Shithead could ever dream of passing.
Yes, your reactionary agenda is no longer hidden. It's Mussolini uber alles. If the country must be split between you rednecks and we blues, so be it. You can have your authoritarian, polluting state dedicated to the desires of the oligarchs and the religious goons.
I do not have a firearm. I am not a sport hunter, and if I were I would be perfectly happy to let the police store it on my behalf if I did not have a cause to use it -- such as deer hunting.
As for supporting a gun grab -- I have no problem with the government separating firearms from criminals, addicts, habitual drunkards, lunatics, spouse-abusers, illegal aliens, idiots, and people on the no-fly list. None of those would have protection of any 'gun rights' in accordance with the militia clause. If the military will not trust someone with a military weapon, then perhaps one should not be the sort to have one. OK, I have left room for the elderly and the handicapped who would never be inducted into the Armed Services. Gun-grabbing legislation could be drafted without discrimination.
On the other hand I will stand for the right of people who have legitimate cause to have hunting weapons to keep and bear them. I know some sport hunters and I would never take away an important part of their identity.
As for a defense, a dog is much more reliable and much less drastic. Criminals have good cause to fear dogs who do far better in reading malign intent and identifying people lying in wait than do we.
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.