1971 - back when the liberals believed in freedom of speech.
@Johnsmith99663
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah nowadays you can't even say something racist without getting fired anymore.
@josephbingham1255
3 жыл бұрын
@@Johnsmith99663 Back then Democrats were fighting for free speech against the Republican establishment. Now that they are in power they see the advantage of calling it sedition etc. etc.
@Johnsmith99663
3 жыл бұрын
@@josephbingham1255 I don’t see how they can be in power when the GOP controls the supreme court, can regularly dominate the senate despite always representing a minority of the population, and currently holds the presidency (despite no Republican candidate winning over the voters since 2004). The GOP is acutely aware it’s rapidly becoming an unpopular, minority party, which has led them to depend almost entirely on archaic parliamentary mechanisms for holding power. They can’t win presidential elections anymore so they need the electoral college to save them. Instead of winning over voters with their ideas they depend on the senate (already an institution that heavily favors the least populated, least economical, most conservative parts of the country) to block any legislation they don’t like (no matter if a majority if Americans are in favor of it). To block progressive judges they refuse to allow hearings for them to even take place. It is sedition and insurrection to rile up a mob of fascists, neo-confederates, white supremacists, and conspiracy theorists for the purpose of inflicting mass violence on the congress in the hopes of overturning the results of an election (of which no evidence of it being rigged was ever produced). That’s something entirely new in the GOP, moving from merely rejecting democracy and the rule of law to embracing mass violence and the wholesale rejection of reality itself. This will no doubt be compared to the riots of last summer, responsibility for which can also be laid at the feet of Donald Trump. He lied to the American people for three crucial months about the severity of it, carried out a campaign of misinformation to undermine the recommendations of health experts, coordinated no federal strategy for dealing with the crisis (in the hopes a lack of one would maximize casualties in America’s major cities, especially amongst urban minorities), undermined the efforts of state governments to contain it (again, for the same reason above), oversaw the country reaching great depression levels of unemployment without serious relief for the unemployed, bailed out the private sector instead of allowing it to fail (which would help American workers, who would end up owning more of the companies through packaged bankruptcies), and after a police officer suffocated a civilian to death responded to the rioting by encouraging even more police violence against the American people. Getting banned from social media was the least that could be done to a president who spent years actively calling for violence.
@josephbingham1255
3 жыл бұрын
@@Johnsmith99663 The liberals are also in control of the vast amount of the newsprint, social media, news media and can decide what and who can speak about what subjects. In general though whoever has the most control does not like criticism. No matter what country. Anyway The Post is a good movie about people standing up for freedom. My opinion.
@AlasdairGR
3 жыл бұрын
We’re not the ones trying to injure and kill people practicing their free speech and right to assembly to bring light to the problems in our country. And we’re not the ones trying to violently subvert a completely fair election.
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