I'm relieved to see you posting here this morning, piezoe. I just saw on twitter that Bozo the Clown died and i wasn't sure we'd be seeing any more posts from you.
Bullshit. Liberals don't defend Muslims from mass persecution (which is the right thing to do BTW). They bend over backwards to excuse whatever bad acts almost any Muslim commits out of cowardice and/or anti-Semitisim and/or political pandering and this is the kind of shit that happens. Why don't libs realize how dumb they are?
What you wrote was simplistic and not responsive to whether big leftist govt is similar to theocratic govt. No one here is a nihilist. No one here is stating the idea of of limited govt is bad. Now... I ask you again. Would anyone in America say that California has gotten more free in the last 30 years?
We have had a number of severe, internal existential tests to see if our government could withstand its inherent weakness. The revolutionary war*, before we had much of a government at all, would have been the first, which we survived largely due to help from France; the civil war; the Nixon affair; and now This. That first fourth of July after the Nixon Resignation there were tears in many American eyes and a new found sense of patriotism and idealism. This test now is different. Now there is a Republican Congress actively aiding and abetting our criminal President, whereas in Nixon's time The Republican Congress was at first largely noncommittal; then slowly, one by one, they broke rank with their reticent colleagues, until in the end there was an avalanche for impeachment. Conviction was a fait accompli, thus the resignation. Now, after November, we will likely have an impeachment, but conviction is still uncertain so long as Republicans hold rank in the Senate. If the President is impeached but not convicted, then our present form of government and our resolve as a nation will be tested to the utmost.** Will we become a totalitarian State where the President is above the law***, or will we withstand yet one more test of our Democratic Republic? __________________ * The revolutionary war could easily be mistaken for being mainly a challenge from beyond our shores. It was a challenge from beyond our shores, and that is how the American Revolutionary War is treated in school history texts. But it was equally, if not more so, an internal challenge. There were many Crown loyalists. The troops, recruited with promises, ill housed, ill clothed, ill feed, and paid with unbacked script were constantly on the verge of desertion. They were held together through intimidation and the ruthlessness of the American Aristocracy. Without help from France we'd have never succeeded. **It's impossible to overestimate how different an impeachment and non-conviction of Trump would be in comparison to the impeachment and non-conviction of Bill Clinton. Although the definition of crime is broad, the American people are more forgiving when the crime is lying about an illicit affair between two consenting adults. The Clinton impeachment was brought on the basis of the President's lying under oath about personal foibles, and was primarily a political exercise aimed at embarrassing the President. Even the Special Prosecutor had reservations whether the House Action was wise. An impeachment of Trump would be nothing of the sort. ***Nixon famously told his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, "When the President does it, it is not illegal."