Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "C-SPAN"
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Folks, keeping pornography and racism out of the school library and curriculum is not censorship, and you love censorship anyway, so don't project. We all learned about blacks in history in school, segregating history is racist, the teacher's unions now want to lie about history. There haven't been any Confederates states since the Democrats lost the war, though the Democrats are bringing back segregation and race hatred and are importing an underclass to work their fields and do their domestic work.
As for freedom/authoritarianism, Republicans are on the freedom and Democrats on the authoritarian side of EVERY ISSUE except harming and brainwashing children (and you shouldn't be free to do that). Tax cuts are not authoritarian. Deregulation is not authoritarian. Free speech is not authoritarian. The right to keep and bear arms is not authoritarian. Freedom of religion is not authoritarian. Criticism of a government lapdog corporate media is not authoritarian. Speaking the truth to power in the face of persecution is not authoritarian. Opposition to the firing of employees, the cutoff of their access to funds or commerce, violence against their persons and property, and the restriction of their communication on the basis of their political beliefs is not authoritarian. All of these things are the diametric opposite of authoritarian. Conservatism is anti-authoritarian fundamentally and point by point. Leftism is authoritarian fundamentally and point by point.
Authoritarianism is censorship, subsidized violence, gun control, political indoctrination in schools, the National Endowment for the Arts, PBS, the Ad Council (a free country should not have STATE FUNDED PROPAGANDA OUTLETS in peacetime), the corporate ESG "social credit" score, IRS targeting political opposition, arrests and raids on political opposition, dismantling of immigration controls to undercut the working class financially and politically, mask mandates, vax mandates, gun free zones, undermining the ancient common law understanding of self defense, isolation of bureaucrats from accountability, partizan mobilization of public sector unions, government sources generating disinformation about political issues (Hunter laptop, etc.), Soviet style show trials, partizan termination of dissenting government employees (who were not insubordinate), ballot harvesting, pronoun mandates, opposition to voter ID and reasonable anti-fraud measures, general partizan mobilization of the regulatory and law enforcement apparatus against political opposition enhanced by a proliferation of regulations making it hard not to violate one by accident, "research grants" steered towards academics and "scientists" which reinforce the empowering narratives like "climate change", hostility towards Christianity, attacks on parental rights, vastly scaled up government spending increases the power of the government dangerously and undercuts every other power base in the jurisdiction through inflation, systematic attacks on every amendment in the Bill of Rights, and a few more civil liberty clauses in the Constitution.
When you sue us because we won't do art that violates our conscience, that's authoritarian. When we pick up our signs and protest, and you dress up in black stuff and beat us up, that's authoritarian. When you dox and harass judges, politicians, and media figures in public and at their homes, that's authoritarian. When we speak out against racist "curricula" in school board meetings and you have us investigated and put on terrorist watch lists, that's authoritarian.
Your party is echoing the Nazis point for point. The Black Bloc is the Brown Shirts. The "mostly peaceful" riots they fueled, funded and armed by leftist billionaires, is Kristallnacht. Jan 6 is the Reichstag fire. It's all there, including your racial segregation, prejudice and racial and political slander and hate, using government power to suppress and terrorize political opposition, moving to restrict gun ownership and possession, locking down state control of businesses and the economy, media censorship, using schools as political indoctrination centers, mobilizing taxpayer money for the production of partizan propaganda, abortion and euthanasia; all straight out of the Nazi playbook, including your economic program. Your side is doing all these things, we are not and never were. For YOU to call US authoritarian is projection to a delusional degree.
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@zackbobby5550 "the Democratic party is Centrist, not Left."
The Republican party is where it has been for decades. Since it majority voted for all the relevant civil rights bills. The Democrats have moved left and this is an objective verifiable fact. The biggest thing, of course, is that a whole host of radical new issues have appeared out of the blue. Indoctrinating preadolescent children in dangerous sexual practices that will leave them more vulnerable to exploitation by sexual predators and a lucrative industry of quack elective drugs and procedures which will leave them impotent, frigid, and sterile; and dependent on continual, extra, and expensive medical care just to stay alive. Mainstreaming of censorship and political slander and violence. Mobilization of the "law enforcement" apparatus to suppress political dissent. Corporate and academic departments devoted to sequestration and punishment of political views. Mandatory Orwellian "struggle sessions" indoctrinating and enforcing the party line. Most of these things were not even being advocated quite recently, much less done. In the field of race relations, Democrats are utterly abandoning the ideal of the colorblind society in favor of "positive racism" and segregation:
https://www.newsweek.com/black-students-only-housing-washington-university-1633265
https://housing.wwu.edu/black-affinity-housing
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/american-colleges-segregated-housing-graduation-ceremonies/
But if you want to quantify the drastic leftward shift of the Democrat party, the easiest thing to graph and track is the shift in registered party members' views on issues that have actually existed long enough to be tracked over time. I can remember when free speech was not a partizan issue. Neither was support for Israel. Dems used to be, if anything, more hawkish about immigration control than Republicans. As recently as Obama's first presidential run, the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman (back when we could all agree on what those terms meant) was a plank in the DEMOCRAT party platform. Republicans haven't moved much since the 1980s when the Reagan revolution reversed the simultaneous double-digit inflation and unemployment and "national malaise" (Carter's phrase). The Democrats' leftward movement on a number of the same issues over time is a verifiable and quantifiable fact, as show in the charts and figures in these articles:
"Democrats and their water carriers in the press are like people on a boat that is drifting off to sea, but are convinced that it's the land that's moving, not them."
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/pew-research-center-study-shows-that-democrats-have-shifted-to-the-extreme-left/
https://theweek.com/democrats/1002266/democrats-have-moved-further-left-than-republicans-have-moved-right-statistical
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-democrats-have-shifted-left-over-the-last-30-years/
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/597987-new-polling-confirms-democrats-left-leaning-policies-are-out-of-touch/
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