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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhere are the "states rights" conservatives?
Where are the Republicans who screamed that Hillary would take away our FREEDOMS! if she was elected?
Where are the Second Amendment yahoos who promised they would defend the country against a takeover by the government?
What the hell is going on?
http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/2020/07/can-we-call-it-fascism-yet.html
Wounded Bear
(58,704 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)onecaliberal
(32,888 posts)unblock
(52,317 posts)What's the problem?
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Maybe we don't need to listen to them anymore? Maybe the media can quit giving them a free run on their political programs?
unblock
(52,317 posts)The bigots had the exact same hypocrisy even back then.
The slave states touted "states' rights" when it served them, but they didn't want northern states to be allowed to provide refuge for escaped slaves. They wanted the federal government to force the free states to return slavers' "property".
misanthrope
(7,428 posts)Nice call back!
OAITW r.2.0
(24,581 posts)Now they think we like them. Fuck no.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,856 posts)Like the Nazis and their industrialist backers, they're really only concerned about socialists and not authoritarians.
They want authoritarian control for themselves, like one big tyrannical corporation that gives the orders and isn't subjected to votes from the peons working under them.
Under The Radar
(3,404 posts)captain queeg
(10,240 posts)temporary311
(955 posts)The South had no problems forcing the Fugitive Slave Act on the rest of the Union. It was always about slavery and white supremacism.
mitch96
(13,924 posts)yeah, right.. I would assume if it was a red state the guns would be firing in rebellion of the treatment of the citizens.
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Hekate
(90,787 posts)Bloody hypocrites and cowards
Alex4Martinez
(2,198 posts)I suppose ICE and DHS and Border patrol are immune from it's protections.
But damn, this is the big Federal overstepping the Militia groups have been raving about for years.
Cha
(297,601 posts)Archetypist
(218 posts)plain and simple
NoPasaran
(17,291 posts)They're in Hell, watching their statues come down.
struggle4progress
(118,334 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the pro life cons, the anti- death panel cons, the small (weak) government cons, the moral cons, the Jesus cons, the law and order cons, the patriotic cons, and all their other previous pretenses.
I also wonder often.