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Vote 💙 The future of our democracy depends on it.
Conservatism continually twists the language of conscience into its opposite. It has no choice: conservatism is unjust, and cannot survive except by pretending to be the opposite of what it is.
The opposite of conservatism is democracy, and contempt for democracy is a constant thread in the history of conservative argument. Instead, conservatism has argued that society ought to be organized in a hierarchy of orders and classes and controlled by its uppermost hierarchical stratum, the aristocracy.
The truth is, the Right doesn’t expect a majority of Americans to support their policies, nor do they particularly care.
Yet for all their wealth and power, the Right’s ideas are only growing more unpopular with time. When progressive policies appear on the ballot in a direct referendum, conservatives lose, time and again, be it right-to-work laws, minimum wage hikes, or Medicaid expansion, even in Republican strongholds.
To start with, conservatism constantly shifts in its degree of authoritarianism. Conservatives have no difficulty claiming to be the party of freedom in one breath, and attacking civil liberties in the next.
To impose its order on society, conservatism must destroy civilization. In particular, conservatism must destroy conscience, democracy, reason, and language.
Conservatism, by its very core nature, is an absolutist, black-and-white way of thinking. Conservatism is rooted in the past; it is hidebound, dogmatic, intellectually incurious, unwilling to explore and examine differing viewpoints, and completely, often rabidly dismissive of evidence to the contrary of its beliefs and core principles. Conservatives tend to be adamantly, willfully, often venomously ignorant of the truth, because the truth offends them. They seem to be hard-wired into this obstinacy, to the point of pathological obsession.
What is wrong with conservatism?
Answer: Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructiveSystem of inequalityandPrejudice, that is founded on deception and has no place in the modern world.
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 @fakeweightsfredokwomo3016Â
Try telling Trump and the insurrectionists who stormed our Capitol that.
When Trump said "stop the steal" it was code word for his followers to "start the steal."
DJT sat in the White House, and watched theVio.lence that unfolded on our nation's Capitol for at least two whole hours, without doing anything and without saying a word, other than to blast his own Vice President, who eventually had to flee for his life.
The truth of the matter is, if he had not filled his followers heads with lies for months, and if he had not held that rally, where he instructed his followers to march to the Capitol and fight like he// in order to "stop the steal" the insurrection never would have happened. Because without the use of vio.lence, how else were they going to stop the so called steal?
The election was over. The only thing that remained was for Pence to count and certify the electoral votes. So the only thing they could've been fighting for, was to bring a stop to the counting of the electoral votes, which would officially certify Biden as the next democratically elected president.
AndVio.lence was the only option they had left. DJT had already exhausted every other legal and illegal option. So on January 6th, theViolence card was the only card he had left, and he played it.
The insurrection was Trump's revenge against our democracy and our Constitution.
It was his way of getting back at everyone who didn't vote for him, and those who refused to violate our Constitution on his behalf. Watching his followers storm the Capitol while wearing his hat and waving flags emblazoned with his name, was the greatest day of his presidency. He had never felt more like the dictator he's always wanted to be than he did on that day. And he reveled in it.
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 @fakeweightsfredokwomo3016Â
The insurrection the entire world watched live on TV.
SidneyPowell's weekslong campaign to invalidate the results of the 2020 election was not based in fact, her lawyers said in federal court back in March.
Powell asked a federal judge to dismiss the $1.3 billion defamationSuit filed by DominionVoting Systems in January.
In court, lawyers for Powell told the judge that "no reasonable person" would believe that her false claims and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election were "truly statements of fact."
The filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia claims Powell's statements were so absurd they couldn’t be taken seriously.🤣
“Plaintiffs themselves characterize the statements at issue as 'wild accusations' and 'outlandish claims,'" her lawyers wrote. "They are repeatedly labeled 'inherently improbable' and even 'impossible.' Such characterizations of the allegedly defamatory statements further support defendant’s position that reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact."
"The president bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by MobRioters,"
'He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding."
"Some say the riots were caused by antifa," There's absolutely no evidence of that, and conservatives should be the first to say so."
"These facts require immediate action from President Trump — accept his share of responsibility, quell the brewing unrest and ensure that President-Elect Biden is able to successfully begin his term."
“Let's be clear, Joe Biden will be sworn in as president of the United States in one week because he won the election."
-- Kevin McCarthy
January 13, 2021
"January 6th was a disgrace.
American citizensAttacked their own government. They used T€RRorism to try to stop a specific piece of democratic business they did not like."
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“Fellow Americans beatAnd BL00.d.i.e.d our own police. They stormed the Senate floor. They built a gallows and chanted about mvrdering TheVP."
"The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their President.
“They did this because they had been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on Earth — because he was angry he’d lost an election.
AMob was assaulting the Capitol in his name. These criminals were carrying his banners, hanging his flags, and screaming their loyalty to him.
"There is no question that PresidentTrump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day."
--Mitch McConnell, February 13, 2021.
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