Republican senator claims 'the left' will start a civil war unless federal highway system abolished

[babylonsister]

Republican senator claims ‘the left’ will start a civil war unless federal highway system abolished
We are ruled by monsters and fools.
Ian Millhiser
Nov 15, 2018, 4:23 pm


On Thursday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) delivered a speech to the conservative Federalist Society that would have been more at home on Alex Jones’ radio show than at a gathering of many of the most powerful lawyers and judges in the country.

In it, Lee warned of a brewing civil war, and claimed that the only way to avert violence would be to eradicate a long list of federal programs including “the interstate highway system,” funding for “K through 12 public education,” “federal higher education accreditation,” “early childhood education, the Department of Commerce,” “housing policy, workforce regulation,” and what Lee labeled the “huge glut of federally owned land.”

Seriously, this is not hyperbole. A sitting United States senator actually said these things.

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https://thinkprogress.org/mike-lee-civil-war-highways-86be306e06b9/?fbclid=IwAR3DWFj9_GgjXgfBsOaw665NC_9wdufNyi3kxh_05TLPMhX5ITgmmkOP5C8

[hlthe2b]

1. Well, I certainly hope that a'hole Gorsuch was listening to this... As a Coloradoan, he should hear

the insanity he is aligned with now.

[manor321]

2. OMG! He figured out our secret highway plan!

Now what will we do?!

[smirkymonkey]

11. I think we should come up with an alternative secret "freeway" plan.

[berni_mccoy]

3. Those are the same goals of the Taliban

They want no infrastructure or education so the can keep the population in check.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Keep them dumb and isolated. People are much easier to control that way.

[vlyons]

5. Right! According to St Ayn Rand

Everyone must buy their own interstate highway, or buy a ticket on one owned by a for-profit transportation monopoly.

[kimbutgar]

6. That is insane shit

This guy needs to be taken away in a straight jacket and sent to a loony bin for that crazy comment.

I swear everyday the repuke party is becoming more unhinged and out of touch with reality. The people of Utah should be ashamed and disgraced for supporting and having him as their Senator.

[Freethinker65]

7. Mike Lee vs. Mitt Romney for the heart of Utah. This could be fun to watch.

[zaj]

8. ???? "the left" will start a civil war if the right doesn't get what it wants?

[CurtEastPoint]

9. Salt Lake paper refers to him as a 'constitutional scholar.' WTF?

A constitutional scholar who was swept into office by the tea party in 2010, Lee said political rhetoric and rancor has reached such a fever pitch that it’s “driving our politics toward violence.… Ultimately, this will come down to a binary choice: federalism or violence.”

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/11/16/sen-mike-lee-says-toxic/

[MagickMuffin]

16. Soooo, there is only TWO choices

What utter insanity.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

10. Did the audience applaud when he was done ranting?

That would worry me more than one crazy guy's conspiracy theories.

[Qutzupalotl]

12. "They'll start a civil war unless we do what we were going to do anyway."

[Autumn]

13. Is there a fucking video of that?

That's insane.

[Grasswire2]

14. And what did the Federalists say?

I heard them described today on MSNBC as conservative intellectuals.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

15. K&R Trump lunacy is without boundaries

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. not trump; this is RW goal

TrumPutin doesn't give a shit so long as he is seen to be BIG.

The right wing Republican party has had the goal of starving and dismantling the Federal government since at least the time of rotten Ronnie. The only part they want intact is the military budget -- national defense.

[PatSeg]

17. Damn, that is extreme

I thought he was relatively normal, at least for a republican.

[Buckeyeblue]

18. What's wrong with Utah that they would elect this idiot?

Another beautiful state populated by dumb people.

[Hortensis]

19. Seriously, all these things have been on the Koch

alliance's chopping block for a long time. They're serious about not paying taxes and about privatizing federally owned lands they currently have to pay us pennies on the dollar to profiteer off of -- when allowed. They've been getting the Bundy types outraged over the theft of "private" lands for a long time.