One of the things about having one’s party in the minority is that, free from the possibility of having to try to craft compromises to pass legislation, they can submit legislation that reflects their core principles to a T. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the GOP is in the minority – as it is in the MN House and Senate? Then <\/em>you see bills that make you wonder “where was <\/em>that kind of thinking when the Republicans controlled the gavel?” Of course, it’s easy to stand on pure principle as the minority – it’s all for the campaign lit in the next election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Parties in the minority submit legislation that reflects their inner id<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n WIth the GOP in the minority, you get solid conservative, even daringly libertarian proposals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n WIth Democrats in the minority? You get attacks on core liberties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Adam Schiff and his fellow Dems dream of gutting the First Amendment<\/a>. He and his cronies are proposing to reverse Citizens United – which ended speech rationing for non-union corporations – and re-regulate political spending, which is political speech. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, they’re in the minority, for now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s just a political stunt, of course, as Schiff doesn\u2019t have the votes. But it does reflect the authoritarian outlook of the contemporary left on free expression. From the day the decision came down, 13 years ago this week, Citizens United<\/a><\/em>was a rallying cry for those threatened by unregulated discourse. President Barack Obama infamously, and inaccurately<\/a>, rebuked the justices during his State of the Union for upholding the First Amendment. Since then, Democrats have regularly blamed the decision for the alleged corrosion of \u201cdemocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n “Democracy”, in Democrat usage, is losing meaning almost as fast as “White Supremacy”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the things about having one’s party in the minority is that, free from the possibility of having to try to craft compromises to pass legislation, they can submit legislation that reflects their core principles to a T. When the GOP is in the minority – as it is in the MN House and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,30,426,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-liberty","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84389,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84320\/revisions\/84389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n