Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "The Why Minutes "
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@bjb7587 "who told you that progressives want to control everyone?"
"By their fruits ye shall know them." I'm not sure that you really know the history of that word in western and particularly in US politics. Etymologically, it ought to mean being in favor of human progress, but it was first used by the Democrats in the Jim Crow days. It meant Socialism, Eugenics, and Jim Crow laws. Woodrow Wilson was a "progressive", on his watch the first film shown in the White House was the KKK promoting film "Birth of a Nation". He is credited with revitalizing the KKK as the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party. FDR was a progressive, he and Mussolini publicly admired one another, and he agreed to block anti-lynching federal legislation in exchange for southern congressmen's votes for the New Deal, and appointed a Clan officer to the Supreme Court. Democrat support for eugenics has been swept under the historical rug since "Nazis gave eugenics a bad name." It was all the rage in the first third of the 20th century, all "evolutionary" and "scientific". Margaret Sanger was a prominent eugenicist, who leaves as her legacy the organization she founded, Planned Parenthood, furthering eugenics by concentrating abortion clinics and propaganda in racial minority neighborhoods. Southern "progressive" legislation was the blueprint for early legislation discriminating against Jews in Germany (before the actual "final solution").
Nowadays the progressives seek to make an "end run" around the First Amendment through social media censorship. Thanks to Elon Musk, Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and the Twitter Files, we now know that agencies of the federal government were unconstitutionally involved in this. The side that seeks to resolve a dispute of fact by the use of force is the obscurantist side, every time. This is how you know that you're the bad guy.
The first gun control laws were sold as measures to disarm racial and ethnic minorities, and the NRA worked hand in hand with minority organizations to fight them. "Progressives" are still pushing gun control, though they claim to be doing the same thing for different reasons now. Progressives have pushed various measures that have weakened the "due process" provisions of the remainder of the Bill of Rights. Overall, that's the whole Bill of Rights you're attacking and undermining, start to finish.
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.
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. Republicans have always been the party of freedom and equality under the law. We're on the freedom side of every issue except harming children, and you shouldn't be free to do that. 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.
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