You are not free. Don't kid yourself.

[Nevilledog]

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Francisco Taveira
@jftaveira1993
.@johnastoehr: "The Republicans benefit when members of a democratic society exhibit a pernicious fear of arbitrary death, anytime and anyplace. To vote against that is to vote against themselves." https://editorialboard.com/you-are-not-free/… #UnitedStates

editorialboard.com
You are not free
Don’t kid yourself.
4:46 PM · Jun 3, 2022

https://www.editorialboard.com/you-are-not-free/

The president spoke last night about the valley of the shadow of death in which the massacre of innocents recurs over and over. It was an especially graphic speech. At one point, Joe Biden informed viewers that parents of victims had to give authorities DNA samples for the purpose of identifying their kids. They were literally shot to pieces.

It was graphic for a reason, I think. Biden wanted to move Americans emotionally – to get us to think about the costs of freedom as much as freedom itself. If a majority of us conclude the costs supersede the principle, perhaps the most intransigent of Senate Democrats would support a carve out of the Senate filibuster to pass gun-law reforms.

The GOP fears the people seeing the truth.
The Republicans won’t move. I am not waiting for Susan Collins to come around. Neither should you. I expect the Senate GOP conference to cling tight to the Second Amendment and the right to bears arms. Gun control is an infringement, they say, that revokes our freedom.

Our freedom has already been revoked.

Don’t kid yourself.

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[onecaliberal]

1. The only way will be to remove enough of them from office. Very painful and deadly times ahead.

As of a million people dead from COVID wasn’t enough.

[regnaD kciN]

2. And, if you think our freedom had been revoked now...

…just wait until you see what happens should Republicans regain control of Congress.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Those millions of republicans want an authoritarian gov't but they mistakenly think they will be the

Those millions of republicans want an authoritarian gov't but they mistakenly think they will be the few thousand elites actually in charge.

Those millions are useful tools for those who will actually be in charge.

One poster called it a 'new social feudalism age'.

[2naSalit]

4. But they'll be happy to...

Serve as the taskmasters who can abuse the serfs with impunity because that's how they roll.

[Initech]

6. Yeah we're already witnessing that with Florida and Ron Desantis.

Rupert Murdoch is pulling Desantis ' strings there. If Fox News gains control of the senate or the White House, who knows what they could be capable of?

[Initech]

5. America: One nation under the gun, indivisible, with liberty and Fox News for all.