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The Democrats Told Us Who They Were When They Locked Us Down
Issues & Insights ^ | 8 Nov, 2022 | I & I Editorial Board

Posted on 11/11/2022 5:55:53 AM PST by MtnClimber

The Democrats and their media accomplices keep telling us the Republicans are the fascists and autocrats hungry for power. But just the opposite is true. The Democrats themselves made it clear during the pandemic that they are the party of authoritarianism.

In the spring of 2020, this country went into a lockdown. As Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute has noted, government officials canceled public worship services, segregated the large cities, abolished in-person education, foisted masks on all the kids, destroyed millions of businesses, and censored speech “so that we could barely discover facts.” They shut down concerts, imposed limits on house parties, scrapped weddings and funerals, locked the elderly into their homes and blocked visitation, ended dentistry, and imposed travel restrictions across state borders, says Tucker.

Some officials, however, saw that the rules were oppressive and restored liberty in their states. None of them are Democrats.

The authoritarian streak that runs throughout the Democratic Party came roaring out, no longer hidden just below the surface. Here was their chance to feed their hunger for more raw power. And they dined sumptuously.

The actions of both elected and unelected Democrats were not “hard calls,” as an Atlantic contributor recently labeled them in an appalling plea to grant amnesty to the offenders. They were the coercive orders of monstrous minds that perversely enjoy telling others what they cannot do and what they must do, who take great satisfaction in demanding and receiving obedience to their diktats.

Pleading for amnesty is not a sincere appeal to forgive and forget. It’s an effort to disarm the defenders of liberty so that the tyrants can more easily in the future establish another set of restrictions, most likely to “flatten the curve” of a climate emergency that doesn’t exist.

It’s clear that Democrats knew exactly what they were doing. The excuse that “we just didn’t know enough” at the beginning of the novel coronavirus outbreak was the perfect cover for their tyrannical urges. Ned Ryun, a George W. Bush speechwriter, reminds us that “within weeks, well-credentialed science and health specialists were warning about the unreliable science behind masks, forced lockdowns in senior care facilities, and the potential long-term harm masking and isolation would cause to young people.” Of course “all of these objections were met with threats, professional derision, and cancellation by the people who are now calling for absolution.”

The most egregious example of a Democrat abusing his authority in the name of some manufactured good was found in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom, who still hasn’t surrendered his emergency powers, convinced himself and millions of others that he could issue essentially any order that came to mind. Not far behind was New York’s Andrew Cuomo, who, as one Democratic state lawmaker said, was “inclined toward tyranny.”....


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; totalitarianism
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1 posted on 11/11/2022 5:55:53 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

No amnesty, no forgiveness. There needs to be a hard lesson learned by the leftists.


2 posted on 11/11/2022 5:56:02 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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3 posted on 11/11/2022 6:05:24 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MtnClimber

Yup

I saved the County order telling us we couldnt leave our houses except for “essential” activities.

Where did a county public health “officer” get such power over allegedly free people?

I could find no place where we gave them such power.

And I wondered, would the “republicans” call them on that, take them to court?

Nah. I knew the answer to that one.

Obedient, obsequious cretinous little rimjob artists that they are, the republicants would meekly knuckle under to the totalitarians.

And they still want us to do the same.


4 posted on 11/11/2022 6:07:59 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: MtnClimber

The Demonicrats told us who they were ever since their party platform promoted the genocidal butchering of unborn children.


5 posted on 11/11/2022 6:08:54 AM PST by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: MtnClimber

The party of the Plantation Bosses and the Slave Masters told us who they were a long time ago, nothing has changed. Their lust for Power and Control over their fellow man is what drives them, always has, always will.


6 posted on 11/11/2022 6:09:01 AM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: MtnClimber
The Leftists are the ones who are at the top...the ones who brainwashed their idiot followers.

We have to identify the head of the snake and cut it off. Then we have to somehow de-program the 30%+- of the population that they have hypnotized.

If we misjudge the aforementioned, we will make a huge error.

I suggest we need to approach this the same way we would if people were indoctrinated into a powerful cult. That is what I think we are dealing with here. The rank and file have no idea what they are doing or why.

Case in point, no sane person could have voted for Fetterman.;-)

The Woke World is living in an echo chamber very much like a house of mirrors. When they think they are looking at us (regular old Americans), they are, as we can clearly see, gazing at their own reflection.

That's who they are screaming "fascist" at...their own image in the fun house mirror wall.

7 posted on 11/11/2022 6:11:07 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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Commies love lockdowns, it's a prelude to curfews, roadblocks and martial law.
And they eventually want them to be permanent.
What better power than to force everybody ask for permission and provide justification for every trip. It's coming.
Pandemics and Environment/Energy are just excuses.
The next excuse will be rampant crime. Thanks to open borders, the breakdown of inner city families and Dems actively favoring criminals, that too is growing.

8 posted on 11/11/2022 6:15:02 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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Let's stop with this myth that only Democrats locked American citizens down.

Governor Ron DeSantis issued a 30-day stay-at-home lockdown order for Florida residents on April 1, 2020.

That alone should disqualify him from ever holding public office.

9 posted on 11/11/2022 6:15:05 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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Bump


10 posted on 11/11/2022 6:17:50 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Regulator

“obsequious cretinous”

Had to look that up to understand it. Very appropriate.

Bump


11 posted on 11/11/2022 6:21:53 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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Fully half of this country wants to be ruled over.


12 posted on 11/11/2022 6:21:53 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: Carl Vehse

Correcto


13 posted on 11/11/2022 6:22:38 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: All

Repubs WON More SUPERMAJORITIES Than EVER / Dr. Steve Turley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsAXNmJrRMo

Pro life women carried the day.

Iowa Passes Right to Keep and Bear Arms 65% to 35%
(AmmoLand)

<><>2022 Repub wave is bigger (more votes) than tea party 2014…
<><>Republicans outvoted democrats 52-46 nationwide…
<><>6 million vote advantage for republicans…
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44 million total Dem votes reported. Where did Biden’s 37.5 million voters go?
(FREEPER PETE Dovgan)


14 posted on 11/11/2022 6:26:24 AM PST by Liz ( DRMan proposes.God disposes.)
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Fully half of this country wants to be ruled over.

It was an eye-opener for sure to see how many people would beg to lick the boot that would stomp them mercilessly.

I'm grateful for their behavior though. I learned a lot about people that I never would have if they hadn't taken the opportunity to show their true selves. No more wasting time or effort with mentally defective people.

15 posted on 11/11/2022 6:29:45 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Regulator
Where did a county public health “officer” get such power over allegedly free people?

Politicians, public health officials and school officials just made it up or misread the statutes. It is hard to take it to a judge when the courts are closed. It took 2 years for a judge to overturn Pritzker's illegal mask mandate.

16 posted on 11/11/2022 6:37:09 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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While I agree whole heartedly, remember that some of the worst offenders: Hochul, Whitmer, Pritzker and Polis won handily because some 70% of our brethern are sheep.[Based on vax rates].
Apparently not enough people minded in the least.

[Plus vote fraud...see Philly and Detroit for examples...maybe NY but Zeldin didn’t say anything..just conceded.]


17 posted on 11/11/2022 6:45:02 AM PST by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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To: MtnClimber
One of the hallmarks of authoritarianism is its leaders’ efforts to “enhance sameness and minimize diversity of people, beliefs, and behaviors,” according to political scientist Karen Stenner. This is exactly what the Democrats have been focused on for years. Conform to their worldview or be shunned, canceled, driven from society.

Voters should be enraged, so alarmed at the Democrats’ systemic violations of liberty that starting today they spend the next three to four election cycles throwing the bums out. Our republic is at stake.

Excellent statement of where we are and in general what we need to aim for. "The Bums" also includes RINO Republicans (Globalist totalitarian b-tards).

18 posted on 11/11/2022 6:45:50 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: eyeamok
The party of the Plantation Bosses and the Slave Masters told us who they were a long time ago, nothing has changed.

What changed is that decades of propaganda have led to legions of simps and karens who'll rabidly carry out the wishes of the Plantation Bosses and Slave Masters. In the past, Plantation Bosses and Slave Masters needed to use force and intimidation. Favored overseers needed to be compensated. Now, simps and karens beg to be enslaved.

I once read that "slaves dream not of freedom but of becoming masters". I thought it was an insightful revelation, something intentionally hidden to keep people ignorant, but have since realized that very few slaves dream of becoming masters and even fewer slaves dream of freedom. I now know that there are many free people who want to be slaves and many slaves want to be slaves forever. We have urban and rural reservations filled with them.

It's also brutally clear that those who desire slavery detest free individuals, especially the ones who would liberate them. They would rather see free individuals enslaved or dead instead of remaining free.

19 posted on 11/11/2022 6:52:19 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: MtnClimber

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20 posted on 11/11/2022 7:13:46 AM PST by sauropod (Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
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