Comments by "J Nagarya" (@jnagarya519) on "‘So much worse than we thought’: GOP pollster on potential political violence in America" video.

  1.  @RuthB51  The only place pollsters can consider facts is in their questions. But polling isn't about facts; it's about opinions of facts.
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  2. There is no "right" to "take up arms" against the gov't. The word for that crime is INSURRECTION. From the Constitution: "Art. I., S. 8., C. 15. The CONGRESS shall have Power To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute [ENFORCE] the Laws of the Union, SUPPRESS INSURRECTIONS, and repel Invasions." And from _Presser v. Illinois: (115) ". . . . It cannot be successfully questioned that the state governments, unless restrained by their own constitutions . . . have . . . the power to control and regulate the organization, drilling, and parading of military bodies and associations . . . . (116) The exercise of this power by the states is necessary to the public peace, safety, and good order. To deny the power would be to deny the right of the state to disperse assemblages organized for sedition and treason, and the right to suppress armed mobs bent on riot and rapine."
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  3. Not with INSURRECTION or other violence.
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  4.  @CantHandleThisCanYa  Right: "We" should become Fascist in order to defeat Fascism.
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  5.  @halloweenjack8655  The definition IN LAW of INSURRECTION is VIOLENT ATTACK ON GOV'T. The January 6 attack on the Capitol was an INSURRECTION, no matter how many want to LIE by ignoring the LAW on the point -- and that was the impetus for the insurrection: ignoring the rule of law for the "better" idea of overthrowing the gov't. I suggest you inform yourself -- which would mean ceasing being confident and comfortable with lying against the obvious. There are "Proud Boys" and "Oath Keepers" indicted for seditious conspiracy, several of whom have pled guilty and are cooperating with prosecutors. There have been subpoenas dropped in 7 states on those involved in the fake electors conspiracy. Clark and Eastman have had their electronic devices seized, and it appears Eastman is about to begin cooperating with the prosecution. The best he can do for himself is to cooperate with the prosecution. The vast majority won't pretend with you that fascist violence against the gov't, against the Constitution, against the rule of law, is acceptable. We will not minimize in order to tolerantly accommodate your promotion of that.
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  6. Gerrymandering and voter suppression IS election fraud because based on lies, primarily that of white supremacism. It's the projection of a pernicious and paranoid fear that, given equality, "Blacks" would seek a revenge as violent and scorched earth as the vengeance behind the white supremacism.
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  7.  @thefreedommovement  It would be the ultimate in self-destruction. The problem on the right, in particular, is that there is a total lack of knowledge of history, and how that teaches the consequences of reality; they fantasize what they'd like to see based on whitewashed mythologizing of history. That is so much easier than the work of learning. What they don't realize is that for which they yearn is death and destruction, with no guarantee as to outcome. The Founders were human, and not always they stirring moral characters as the abstractions of them paint. The reliance on their words without any sense of their embodiment; any sense of their actual actions. Any bullshitter -- the Founders were politicians -- can tell you how their motives are pure and their goals noble. Sam Adams, as example, wasn't actually about "revolution"; he was about "restoring Puritan virtue". And he never missed an opportunity to foment violence and killing. He is one of the most morally repugnant individuals I've ever read about. And John Hancock: extremely popular; during elections he was a populist. Between elections he characterized democracy as "mob rule". And his ego and ambition thoroughly exceeded his intelligence. During the battle for ratification of the Constitution he lead the Anti-Federalist faction opposed to ratification. Then Sam Adams took him aside and said that if the Constitution were ratified, he would ensure that Hancock would be the first president. On the spot Hancock became a Federalist. He was also given the honor of reading to the Convention the proposed amendments that would be included with the Notice of Ratification, and he gave the impression that he wrote them. Actually they were written by conservative merchant and Convention delegate Theophilus Parsons. And then there was the parade in New York in honor of George Washington. For miles there were people six feet deep along the parade route. John Adams and Hancock were in a carriage back in the procession. Hancock thought all those people had turned out to see Hancock.
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  8. The danger is media illiterates not knowing the difference between facts and opinion, and lies presented as "opinion" which is propaganda. It started with FOX reducing a fact to an "opinion," elevating a falsehood to "opinion," then leaving it to the intellectually-dead viewer to "decide" which is true.
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  9. This Supreme Court is gutting separation of "religion" and gov't. And with their "Roe" decision they eliminated the right of privacy -- which affects everyone. And Thomas's gun decision rejects the fundamental balancing of interests, individual right v. public safety. He rejects public safety as a consideration. The legitimizing of the arming of the radical right-wing "religious" minority began with Scalia's lie that the Second Amendment protects an individual right. Thomas has now gone beyond that by focusing exclusively on gun rights. Since at latest Buffalo and Uvalde gun-nuts have gone beyond defending gun rights to defending mass murder.
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