{"id":86079,"date":"2023-09-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86079"},"modified":"2023-09-25T09:38:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T14:38:40","slug":"fascists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86079","title":{"rendered":"Darn Those Authoritarian Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ever wonder why people on the left are so fond, over the past decade, of referring to people who disagree with them as &#8220;Fascists&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, of course, it&#8217;s because of all the Republican governors who use their power to bulldoze constitutional checks and balances &#8211; in the case of this conservative governor, deciding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/new-mexicos-governor-issues-health-order-suspending-right-to-carry-guns-in-public-across-albuquerque#:~:text=New%20Mexico%20Gov.%20Michelle%20Lujan%20Grisham%20on%20Friday,in%20response%20to%20a%20spate%20of%20gun%20violence.\">she doesn&#8217;t really need the legislature to create or repeal laws<\/a>, and waterboarding the definition of &#8220;public health crisis&#8221; into compliance to do it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday issued an emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque and the surrounding county for at least 30 days in response to a spate of gun violence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s this &#8220;new right&#8221; prime minister, telling the world we need to destroy free speech to save it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because we&#8217;re &#8220;at war&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ardern at UN: we are at war, so censorship is necessary <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/agYcLsfnwQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/agYcLsfnwQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; David Strom (@DavidStrom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidStrom\/status\/1704253222771167577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservative <em>love <\/em>to turn social disagreements into &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-coronavirus-strategy-9ea193e04addb41148d450b452c66592\">wars<\/a>&#8221; to justify their overreach. It of course peaked when the conservative MAGA president gave a speech during which he &#8220;othered&#8221; half of the nation, in a speech redolent with martial natinalistic imagery&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-4-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83866\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-4-1024x683.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-4-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-4-768x512.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-4-450x300.png 450w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-4.png 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; that fairly shouted &#8220;the time is nigh to <em>do something<\/em> about it&#8221;, part of a campaign of &#8220;othering&#8221; dissent that started in 2009.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s the fact that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/real_clear_opinion_research\/poll_is_censorship_a_partisan_issue_149790.html\">majority of Republicans favor curbing free speech &#8220;for the greater good&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>On the issue of free expression, at least, Republicans are not the authoritarian party. That distinction belongs to the Democrats, the party launched by Thomas Jefferson \u2014 the Founding Father who famously said that if he were forced to choose between \u201ca government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Wait.- wut?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why, it&#8217;s almost as if Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law is inviolable and absolute or something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why people on the left are so fond, over the past decade, of referring to people who disagree with them as &#8220;Fascists&#8221;? 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