(08-06-2022, 06:37 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: It doesn't matter. He fundamentally misrepresents their position, anyways. They believe the election was stolen. The government didn't do an immediate, transparent, and thorough investigation of the claims, nor did it take any measures to safeguard against anything similar in the future. That's why people were mad. That's why people were there. Whether it's true or untrue is irrelevant. They aren't trying to burn the constitution. At least not most of them. Meanwhile, on the progressive left, you do have many, many activists who are using protest, riots, censorship, and intimidation for the sole purpose of destroying the pillars of our government, but Mikey supports that cause. Why? Because he can't think critically about what's going on in our country. He parrots establishment talking points. There is a threat of violence coming from the right. Not only will I concede it, but I was warning of that about 8 years ago. The two-tier justice system has to go away.

The people were using threats of kidnapping and execution to prevent officials from doing their duty under the constitution.  They were saying that their interpretation of who won which state was more valid than the interpretation from the states themselves. If that's not burning the constitution I don't know what is.

You're also misrepresenting me regarding efforts from the progressive left to use violence. I don't think that's acceptable at all.  And I don't think it's acceptable for anyone, left, or right, to say things about our constitution being to inconvenient or too old fashioned and it should be disobeyed.  We obviously need to amend the thing in some ways.  Leftists say "don't listen to those dead white slaveholders," and that's obviously completely wrong.  

But when right wing people say "we can't let people vote for socialism" or "we can't let people vote themselves more money," that's equally wrong.  Right wingers should work to convince people to their way of thinking, so voters don't want to vote themselves more money, but the Constitution provides absolutely no refuge to anyone who wants to prevent adults from voting on any topic they want to vote on.

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