Who's rights count more?

[lees1975]

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/attacks-pride-events-embody-spirit-jan-6-n1296442?cid=nt_npd_ms_as_ms_220127

I don't even know where to go with this. We live in America, where individual rights are constitutionally guaranteed, regardless of any distinguishing, identifying factor that includes race, ethnicity or national origin, gender, religious belief, social position, economic position, etc. etc, etc.

If anyone's rights are threatened, everyone's rights are threatened.

Are you still planning to stay home on the first tuesday in November?

[Groundhawg]

1. Everyone's rights count but,

really the only option is to try to go with the most people getting their rights when there is a conflict.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

2. One side is trying to end rights and end lives

We are guaranteed the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That does not guarantee someone the right to "not see LGBTQ's" or to not be offended.

For example, I have no use for America's so-called "royal family", the Kardashians. If they come up on my TV, I have the option to turn the channel. If I see them on a website, I have the option to click away. What I do not have is the "right" to threaten or attack the Kardashians to make them go away, just because I don't like them.

What we have is 30% of the country with IQ's around their shoe size and the maturity level of toddlers. They think the entire world revolves around them, and they and they alone can dictate the entire country. Don't like how the election turned out? Storm the capitol! Don't like that LGBTQ's exist? Threaten their lives! Don't like that a woman says no? Gra... I'm not going to repeat Drumpf's infamous line.

This is beyond "rights." This is about people filled with hate, who have been programmed by right-wing media and the QOP to carry out acts of stochastic terrorism. These are immature psychopaths who think because they don't like LGBTQ's or people of color, well, they have the right to eliminate them.

There is an old saying that far too many people in this country have forgotten: Your rights end where mine begin. There is no law that says people have to like LGBTQ's... But there are plenty of laws that say we have the right to live, and not be beaten to death or shot or dragged to our death behind a truck.

What has happened over the last few years should be the end of all debate about the two "parties" in this country (fact: we only have one party now. The other is a domestic terrorist group.)

One party stands for democracy, the other wants to destroy it.
One party stands for human rights, the other stands for hatred.

And now I hope everyone sees the full truth here in 2022: One party stands for life, the other stands for death.

Whose rights count more? Ours. Period. Full stop. Because terrorist threats, violence and murder are not rights at all.

[lees1975]

3. K

Well said.

And again, I ask, are you going to stay home on election day? That's to every voter who cast a ballot against Trump in 2020. Get out and vote straight democrat. Your rights will still be there if you do, and they might be gone if you don't.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

4. I never stay home on election day

Even as far back as the 90's, I made sure to vote and vote on everything I could. Because the Republiqans at the national level turning this country to hell started somewhere. They started on city councils and school boards. They started as mayors or state assembly members. They used those wins to reach for bigger wins. And that's how we suffer with the likes of "Representative" Empty Greene of GA, "Senator" Moscow Mitch, and "Governor" DeSatan of Florida.

Stop them at the bottom, and they don't terrorize us from the top.