I was just blurting out a truth here and it didn’t hit me how true it was.
These authoritarians, they “mainstream” political voices that hit office, often, and make get heard more, do get to betray themselves. The fact is they expose what they truly despise, anyone who would disobey them.
“What country can preserve its liberties,
if its rulers are not warned from time to time that
this people preserve the spirit of resistance?
Let them take arms.” — Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source: in a letter to William S. Smith, 13 November 1787
They regard no one who doesn’t follow their laws, their authority, as law abiding. To disobey, is to not being law abiding. It’s how they can convince themselves that anyone arrested for having a gun is right, because that individual is not law abiding, because the disobeyed.
A great danger in handing over a gun to a creature like this.
It doesn’t remain merely a problem with 1 Amendment, they regard banning people from open forums as perfectly legitimate, make “believe all women” replace due process and who knows what they will use the Neural Link they will be using tax dollars to fund with military contracts.