What I wrote on May 5. May 11, Liz Cheney delivered her parting shot and said it more eloquently yet clearly stated.. http://www.cnn.com/2021/05/11/politics/liz-cheney-floor-speech-full-remarks/index.html
May 5: Democracy dies when a wannabe Emperor demands you lie about his nakedness. The attacks against Liz Cheney for standing up against the rest of her party is an example of what happens when party discipline and loyalty to a person leads to the end of democracy. She was like the little boy in the crowd who in his innocence shouted out the "Emperor has no clothes". In this case, the emperor was cloaked in a big lie that he really won the election because of nonexistent fraud. Here is where the folk tale and the actual crowd reaction part company. In the tale the crowd erupts into laughter and the Emperor is shamed. In 2021, the GOP crowd cheers him on and shames Liz Cheney.
It would be the end of the story if such a litmus test of having to perpetuate a lie to keep power is no fairy tale parade. It destroys faith in the fundamental characteristic of a functioning democracy, the vote of the people. When most of the GOP loyalists refuse to look at the evidence, grasp at every fantasy straw to justify their blindness, that is the danger to democracy. When they do not believe their eyes and continue to opine that the leadership of the January 6 mob was just having a wild time, that is a fundamental danger to democracy. When they contend that those violent rioters were just kidding about frightening Congresspeople into overturning the election, it is themselves they are kidding. When the naked Emperor has become so powerful, when he continues to flaunt his nakedness and continues the royal march unshamed, it threatens democracy by forcing even those who know a lie when they see one to bow down to him. They must think and speak as he demands to show loyalty to him the person, or be banned from his kingdom. This democracy that depends on the loyalty to process and the rule of law and the trusted vote of the people is in grave danger.
I wrote the following May 5; May 11, Liz Cheney delivered her parting shot and said it more eloquently. http://www.cnn.com/2021/05/11/politics/liz-cheney-floor-speech-full-remarks/index.html While on many. public policy issues, I would differ with her, she ended her remarks that the conservative principle was devotion to the rule of law count me as a conservative, too
Facebook continues its ban on Trump but will re-examine in 6 months. The reason: the threat of violence is still real. I see what this means. This is a implication that Trump's posts incite violence and that "stop the steal" is still the slogan Trump continues to exhort. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/05/05/facebook-trump-ban-permanent-oversight-board-ruling/4377852001/
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