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In reply to the discussion: Sedition [View all]Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)(1) When did shrinking government automatically become sedition? Near as I can tell national defense is an obligation of the federal government but patriots can petition for the shrinking of the national defense budget.
(2) intimidation and bribery? Sounds like so much hyperbolic nonsense. But assuming such things occurred by their legal definition there are already laws against intimidation and bribery -- which aren't sedition, they're intimidation and bribery.
(3) "taking over state governments" Is this how the author describes it when Democrats win state legislative majorities and they get to redistrict? Try doing an image search for "Democratic gerrymandered districts." We aren't exactly entitled to cast the first stone here.
(4) "running a vast PR campaign" Apparently the author doesn't like the 1st Amendment and wants criminalize speech he doesn't agree with. That strikes me as fairly seditious. The remedy for bad speech is more speech.
(5) "buying up the media" These are publically traded companies. Anybody can buy stakes and there are plenty of deep pockets on the Democrat side of the aisle. If we want a better voice we need to compete by offering products the consumer wants. It takes just as many button pushes to get to MSNBC as it does to get to Fox. People are choosing for a reason, we need to tap into those reasons. We also have Huffington Post, MoveOn.org, Daily Kos, salon.com, Slate, The New Republic, etc. etc. etc. All of these are just a hyperlink away from whoever wants them.
Really, you do yourself a disfavor reading such manifestly ridiculous tripe.