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At least progressives are open about their desire for the state to dominate their lives…

Meditate on the 4th, about the 4th and what your plan will be for the 5th and beyond.

https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/what-ever-happened-to-the-radical-conservative/

By Joe Jarvis

…But instead of calling for more freedom today, conservatives spout off about just obeying the law.

Too bad there are now so many laws that you can’t go through a day without breaking at least one. And at that point, the government can arrest anyone at any time for anything— that’s the definition of tyranny.

And anyway, following the law didn’t work out for Philando Castile, shot to death during a traffic stop after cops pulled him over because he “resembled” a robbery suspect.

Castile was a legal firearm permit holder, who informed the police officer that he had a firearm on him. He did exactly what we are told we should do with police officers… be truthful, stay calm, follow their orders.

There is a video of the killing that made it crystal clear the cop murdered Castile–whether or not he wrongly feared for his life. And yet the officer was acquitted.

Where the hell was the revolutionary fervor from conservatives then?

Conservatives are the ones who correctly claim the real point of the Second Amendment is to protect against a tyrannical government.

Spoiler alert: the cops are the ones you’re going to have to shoot if guns are outlawed. They are the ones who will arrest you at gunpoint if you don’t turn in your bump-stock and silencer, as this “conservative” President has mandated.

And I’m over here waiting for conservatives to fight for the right to own a machine gun and mortar.

Yes, I do need a rocket launcher, thank you very much. The Venezuelans could have used them recently when military vehicles started running over protesters in the street. Explosives would have come in handy at Tiananmen Square in China in 1989.

I grew up believing–apparently incorrectly–that it would be the conservatives who fought back if our own government ever became that oppressive.

John Brown sacrificed his life breaking into a US armory to try to arm the slaves to revolt against their oppressors.

Where are the abolitionists today? Where are the conservatives calling attention to the racism inherent in firearms permitting? Or the police state built on the drug war?

Senator Mitch McConnel, the top Republican in Congress just called for raising the federal legal smoking and vaping age to 21 years old.

So now conservatives want a strong centralized federal government to tell people old enough to serve in the military and take on $100,000 of student loans that they can’t light up a cigarette?…

Texas is ready to make sex jokes illegal on college campuses, then arrest and prosecute professors if they fail to report anything that could even remotely be considered offensive by the most delicate snowflake. Texas!

Then there are the “conservatives” who want to ban burning or disrespecting the American flag, even though it is clearly protected freedom of expression, no matter how offensive you find it.

The irony of making it illegal to mistreat the alleged symbol of freedom is apparently lost on them…

But in some ways, these conservatives are worse than the progressives. Because in addition to supporting huge unrestrained government, they lie about it.

At least progressives are open about their desire for the state to dominate their lives…

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