A good article here about the NRA bullying people with veiled threats of violence to get them to stop exercising their Constitutional right to peaceful protest and dissent. It's good to see they're fully embracing the neo-Nazi lifestyle.....
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nra-video-calls-clenched-fist-response-protests-171252401.html
but I thought I'd post the highlights separately. Good shit to remember:
Jason Stanley, a philosophy professor at Yale University and the author of “How Propaganda Works,” called the video “utterly terrifying” and took particular issue with its allusions to tamping down protests.
“Dissent against the president is represented as an attack on freedom—when in a democratic society, dissent and protest are the essence of freedom,” Stanley said in an email to Yahoo News.
“’Law abiding’ is used as a contrast with ‘democratic,’” he added. “So political protest—for example at airports—is not ‘law abiding,’ even though it is clearly consistent with the constitution. ‘Law abiding’ here means ‘following whatever the leader says.’ This is an authoritarian notion of law, not a democratic one.”
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