Posted on 08/04/2021 3:39:29 AM PDT by blueplum
Rep. Cori Bush has been sleeping on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. The far-left Missouri Democrat and her allies are protesting Saturday’s expiration of the federal government’s order banning evictions nationwide. But a disturbing aspect of the congresswoman’s stunt makes this much more than a mere dispute over housing policy....
The “eviction moratorium” has, rather predictably, led to many properties being occupied by nonpaying tenants, bankrupting innocent landlords (whose mortgage payments and bills were not paused). It also has had the perverse effect of leading many landlords to keep possible rentals off the market...
here are too many obvious problems with the “eviction moratorium” to count. Despite this, Bush isn’t just arguing for its reimposition — she’s attempting to silence debate by painting those who oppose the moratorium as literally violent.
“Last night, we stood on the steps of the Capitol in a moment of silence for all the people who are unhoused whose lives have been taken because of policy violence,” Bush wrote in a tweet. (Emphasis mine.) “For all of those whose lives will be at risk until the eviction moratorium is extended. We need to save lives.”
This is where the congresswoman’s stunt turns really disturbing. It’s perfectly legitimate for Bush to argue for her preferred federal housing policy, and even do so in emotional terms, as wrong-headed and ignorant as her position may be. But to accuse those who dare disagree with her of literal violence and attempt to reframe disagreement as “policy violence” is a chilling attempt to silence debate.
Speech is not violence. Arguments are not assault. Ideas aren’t a threat to physical safety.
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She’s simply continuing the leftist tactic of calling policies or speech they don’t like “violence”. It’s very intentional. It allows their foot soldiers (Antifa and BLM) the cover to commit physical violence in response to the “violence” they say is being visited on the “oppressed” by Conservative speech and policies. It also gives the leftist politicians, the cover tp support them.
There’s nothing stopping her or any one else from paying someone’s rent/mortgage out of her own pocket. Oh wait, DemonRats don’t want to spend their money they want to spend everyone else’s.
Marx’s manifesto is famous for summing up his theory of Communism with a single sentence: “Abolition of private property.”
‘.Nuff said.
I don't care how much honey they spread on it, government control of private business is one of the tenets of Fascism. Next comes Socialism then Communism, where the government nationalizes that business. For the Good of the State, doncha know.
That is the classic definition of fascism.
Mark
She “won”, didn’t she?
The whe issue is to turn rental property into government housing for illegals.
Banks repo, Blackrock buys them all, rents to people forever. Score another for globalism and the Great Reset.
“You will own nothing.”
LOL, the more idiots like Bush use words, the more words lose their meaining.
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