| | | No, because as we are seeing play out right now, one man's peaceful protest can become another man's armed assault
An armed assault was not the threat I had in mind. It was undermining democracy and government stability by so many people losing trust in elections. There was intent and likelihood. Immediacy, though, is iffy.
When a Republican goes off the rails, I try hard to consider what happened in the context of constitutional concerns.
Just about everything Trump is on the wrong side of the Constitution.
It ought to be clear, however, that there are legislators in the majority who would clamp down on free speech in a microsecond if they are allowed to get away with it.
Perhaps. Don't think they will prevail though.
Re the free speech issue on the table, the problem is that the right thinks that it is conservative speech that is being stifled whereas it's really disinformation that is the target. Since you don't recognize the disinformation as that because you believe it, you can't distinguish between the two, thus you are missing the point. Disinformation is a real threat. As we become unmoored from truth, we are in great danger of losing it all. We really need to do something about disinformation, propaganda, lies. |
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