A few days ago on Twitter, somebody called me a “left-rightist". I asked WTF that was. Somebody else replied, “That’s a leftist who believes in the First Amendment.” The insinuation of the oxymoronic phrase(which is literally Orwellian doublethink) is, of course, that one cannot really be a leftist if one believes every American citizen, even Donald Trump, is protected from certain actions on the part of the government by the Bill of Rights and the Lincoln Amendments.
You are absolutely right on about this, OB. I would say that you and I lost friends over this who were not big losses. However, I've been around long enough to see people come up to my husband and admit that they unfairly judged him in particular things (when he taught). It was interesting to see you write "Lincoln Amendments", which has to be post civil war dealing with slavery.
It seems like non of these things in a surreal "now" is based on any real constitutional definition, particularly the first amendment. I have to temper myself with my remaining sibling, who has been washed in ignorance of what "we the people" are doing to ourselves by simply buying the crap that goes for news via the ownership of the fourth estate, much less how the oligarchy has encompassed everything we judge, "less we not be judged".
Did you ever nail it.OB,you may be one of the last people in America who remembers what civil liberties are all about.
You are absolutely right on about this, OB. I would say that you and I lost friends over this who were not big losses. However, I've been around long enough to see people come up to my husband and admit that they unfairly judged him in particular things (when he taught). It was interesting to see you write "Lincoln Amendments", which has to be post civil war dealing with slavery.
It seems like non of these things in a surreal "now" is based on any real constitutional definition, particularly the first amendment. I have to temper myself with my remaining sibling, who has been washed in ignorance of what "we the people" are doing to ourselves by simply buying the crap that goes for news via the ownership of the fourth estate, much less how the oligarchy has encompassed everything we judge, "less we not be judged".