RE: America Has No Kings
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I have a certain distrust for folks suddenly protesting political overreach if 4 years ago they were condemning COVID dissent. I remember literal demands for concentration camps to imprison anyone who dared defy, disobey, and disrupt.
Most now seem to be mainly mad the government is peeling back unconstitutional bureaucracy. Trump was open about his plans for DOGE in his campaign, and complaining about unelected people doing stuff after the past century and more of Wilsonian bureaucracy bloat is a bit rich.
The Department of Education is barely older than I am, and has failed by every objective measure. There is no authorization for government to fund foreign aid, especially if it's cover for CIA operations. Science belongs in the universities, not government labs or through government grants. Revert the alphabet soup of agencies to the states or the people as required by the 9th and 10th amendment.
That said, there is also plenty of room to criticize Trump on what I see as legitimate moral and constitutional grounds. He is an ignorant and pompous blowhard with an authoritarian streak a mile wide. His loudest critics just don't seem to see those issues the way I do.
Very well said, and conveyed better than I could! Lol
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I wouldn't be in such a hurry to jump to conclusions about what they were doing 4-5 years ago, 50501 seems to be going the big tent route. Nonviolence and grievance with the government seemed to be the only requirements to be party to the protest.
I missed that part, going to chalk that up to the flashbangs and tear gas. Personally, I wasn't entirely comfortable with how statist many of the folks were but it was also a lot of people's first protest. Was nice to see folks taking the first baby steps to taking back their power, but there's still a lot of learning to be done.
That was kind of the essence of the protest, we didn't have to see eye to eye with one another , just had to have similar opinions of a couple billionaires.