The Velvet Fascism of “Protect our Democracy”

Posted by freedomforall 12 months ago to Politics
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"eciding that a person who has not been charged with, let alone convicted of, insurrection is guilty of insurrection and therefore cannot run for president…that is “protecting our democracy” in action.

Whenever that term is used, one can be assured that the democracy they are referring to has no semblance to any actual democracy.

In this case, “ours” does not mean “all of ours” – it means “theirs.”

What they are protecting is their democracy; not a democracy of the people, but now merely a word used to fig leaf the ever-expanding slither of socialist socialite statism, the velvet fascism that is deftly hammering its way through the society and the culture.

The Colorado Supreme Court ruling disqualifying Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot there is absurd, legally indefensible, and a direct attack on the entire constitutional premise of the nation.

It eviscerates the basic right of the people to choose – however one may think of their choice – their own leader.

It torpedoes the idea of the balance of powers between the three branches of government. Until yesterday, judges have almost always steered clear of most election-related cases, in part because of that issue. In fact, the mantra that “Trump lost every challenge he made in court to the 2020 election” is true because, three years ago, courts did everything they could to not hear the cases – issues of standing, issues of timing, and issues well, what do you what me to do? Order a new vote? Few – if any – were heard on their merits.

The United States Supreme Court even ruled that a group of states did not have standing to sue states they thought mishandled the 2020 election. One would think a state would have standing in court to challenge how another state ran their elections because who is president impacts every state, but still the Supremes passed on even hearing an argument.

That is yet another reason this ruling is so mind-boggling dangerous – the precedent set is catastrophic to the point that the President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele was right when he tweeted “The United States has lost its ability to lecture any other country about ‘democracy’.”

That is how degrading this ruling is to the actual rule of law, not the “rule of law” the statists trot out to stifle, intimidate, and destroy their opponents."
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D.C. is utterly corrupt and treasonous. NIFO
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 12 months ago
    Timely article. "Protecting Democracy" has become an obvious ruse...So obvious that only the most indoctrinated leftists I know (and I know some doozies) would go along with it. They're sick people, really. My son and I still laugh at the time I had a few of them at a table together for lunch a few years ago and I mentioned that I was impressed at how effective leaders like Hitler and Pol Pot were and they all just smiled in approval. My son said, "Dad. What are doing?" "Just watch, kid...." LOL
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  • Posted by Aeronca 12 months ago
    I always knew that this "our democracy" dogwhistle was another iteration of dishonest use of language.
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    • Posted by 12 months ago
      The represnakes in D.C. have been lying for over a century. The process called 'democracy' has always been fatally flawed.
      The original Articles of Confederation limited the powers of the central government and left powers in the states and the people. The central government had no power to restrict the peoples' choices of, for example, mode of transportation, or any other personal choices.
      Read the "Articles" here:
      https://www.archives.gov/milestone-do...

      The current government has exceeded the powers allowed by the people and to quote Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, "when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government."
      D.C. will never reform itself.
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      • Posted by $ Abaco 12 months ago
        I agree with that last point. America will just continue the slow march toward a Hunger Games type of model where there is a elite leadership that slowly starves us, shuts down our power, limits our right to travel and enjoy life, and throws us to the wolves. The only model that will work is one of gradual, increasing non-compliance. I think people know this deep-down - which is why we see families fleeing blue states for "political higher ground". It's a survival instinct as they do it quietly, literally often leaving town in the middle of the night...(like a couple families I knew who fled Venezuela).
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        • Posted by $ Markus_Katabri 12 months ago
          What is Bizzaro world to me is the people who SAY they are for the “little people” are the same ones voting to give the “BIG PEOPLE” more power. When AntiFacists counter protest people who are against BIG PHARMA legislation and censorship they are in fact supporting a melding of government and corporate interests which is by any reasonable definition the very basis of FASCISM.
          So complete is the brainwashing of the useful idiots.
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