Incoming feelings:
It is genuinely confusing and disturbing to me how many lefty extremers are heavy into a worldview where America is the worst, literally a fascist hellhole, while all of their arguments are emotional appeals to the ref/state daddy. Does anyone else have this? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills, listening to people whose rights to talk shit and expect a fair justice system were purchased for them by the blood and effort of men they despise, and whose physical safety is safeguarded by endlessly patient fascist pig cops, act like those rights and that justice system is absolute trash.
WHAT IS HAPPENING. Do they think laws are “real” in some material sense, and that their rights are absolute and will be protected forever by magic aliens? They sometimes talk about rights as though “rights” are facts of nature like gravity, rather than something our ancestors wrestled into existence. It’s as though they’ve psychologically internalized a kind of slave morality authoritarianism so much that they believe there’s an appeals court in the sky that controls the US government and you can just skip the rules you don’t like and appeal to Sky Dad.
Where in the world do they think people are more safe, more free, and more prosperous than in America? Why do they think so many people want to immigrate here? America has many problems, but I just hear these people bleat about fascism and feel astonished that they don’t even notice that their ability to talk shit and harass diners without getting disappeared is protected by the “fascist” system they hate and want to overthrow.
Am I crazy? I feel like I’m going crazy. I wish I could go back in time to the early 2000s. I guess my darkest fear is that the ignoramus cult that cries “fascism” because a man in uniform set a boundary are going to will actual fascism into existence, and there will turn out not be a magic sky daddy to protect the rights they foolishly took for granted. I hope I’m being crazy and this is going to cool back down.
The other day, I heard that Ben Franklin “a republic, if you can keep it” story, and it made me legitimately emotional. Are we a nation of retards? Why don’t we understand how rare and precious a stable democracy is?