{"id":27046,"date":"2017-10-20T07:19:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T12:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27046"},"modified":"2017-10-20T07:19:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T12:19:29","slug":"a-political-realignment-is-necessary-the-real-struggle-is-liberty-vs-authoritarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27046","title":{"rendered":"A Political Realignment is Necessary \u2013 The Real Struggle is Liberty vs. Authoritarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Political Realignment is Necessary \u2013 The Real Struggle is Liberty vs. Authoritarianism<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Until the American public ceases bickering amongst itself along Democratic and Republican or \u201cleft\u201d vs. \u201cright\u201d lines, we\u2019ll continue to be divided and conquered by authoritarians who wield tremendous power throughout both sides of the traditional political spectrum. This isn\u2019t to say there aren\u2019t real, meaningful differences between those who classify themselves on the \u201cleft\u201d or the \u201cright,\u201d but it is to say there\u2019s a much bigger battle afoot and nothing\u2019s going to get better until we frame the new political reality for what it is. The most significant, existential struggle at play in these modern United States is a battle between Liberty and Authoritarianism<\/strong>, and it\u2019s extremely important you know where you stand.<\/p>\n

While the entire Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution is crucial to our civil liberties, no right is more significant than the First Amendment. If we lose freedom of speech, it\u2019s game over for our society, and we have to understand that authoritarians on both the \u201cright\u201d and \u201cleft\u201d are taking shots at freedom of speech as I write this. As such, differences between \u201cright\u201d and \u201cleft\u201d should be deemphasized because if we lose the First Amendment, we lose everything.<\/p>\n

A major political realignment is not simply a good idea, it\u2019s absolutely crucial to the survival of a thriving civilization here in the U.S.\u00a0The historical struggle we face today is not Democrat vs. Republican, or right vs. left, but Liberty vs. Authoritarianism.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get started by highlighting an extremely creepy proposal recently published, titled,\u00a0Fool Me Once: The Case for Government\u00a0Regulation of \u201cFake News.<\/strong>\u201d<\/a> One of the authors is Ann M. Ravel, who was previously a Democratic Commissioner on the Federal Election Commission (FEC).<\/p>\n

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A Political Realignment is Necessary \u2013 The Real Struggle is Liberty vs. Authoritarianism Until the American public ceases bickering amongst itself along Democratic and Republican or \u201cleft\u201d vs. \u201cright\u201d lines, we\u2019ll continue to be divided and conquered by authoritarians who wield tremendous power throughout both sides of the traditional political spectrum. This isn\u2019t to say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43,2779,4285,16093,1426,655,1169],"class_list":["post-27046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-authoritarianism","tag-fake-news","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-kriegen","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27047,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27046\/revisions\/27047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}