The events of the last week have me tied up in ways that I struggle to articulate. On one side we have a group of conservatives aggressively using their first amendment rights for shouting, false premises, and even threatening political violence to control a narrative. On the other side we have a less conservative group of people practicing their first amendment rights in criticism of the conservatives narratives and not offering much to the conversation. I feel responsibility in this case needs a “Less is More” approach.

I have no issue with either side exercising their first amendment rights. If you want to lie, spread disinformation, call out hypocrisy, or express your feelings feel free to do so. But… you can’t oppress the other sides speech without taking responsibility for one’s self-owned rhetoric. Nor can you use the forces of governance to suppress the expression of the people. If one does perform that action the United States will become a full blown fascist republic without respect to the Constitution.

Responsibility is the key word here. Once you use rhetoric that is questionable you have to own it. You can’t determine how someone will interpret it. Nor can you punish someone for sharing their interpretation of the things that have been said by the opposing view. If you don’t like it, too bad. Deal with it. If you work in the public doing anything, you must take responsibility for your actions and words. PERIOD.

I dislike the rhetoric from the conservatives. It is hateful, harmful, and at best factual once in a blue moon. It is rationalized speech from folks that think they are exceptional and privileged. I don’t support them. I don’t watch their networks. I don’t use their platforms if I can avoid it. I don’t purchase from their sponsors if I can help it. I censor them in the best way I know how. I don’t listen to them. Credibility is a moot point with them… It is all about blaming someone else for their issue. Governing is not their goal. Greed and power is their goal.

Some of the rhetoric from the less conservative side, the conservatives call them radical leftists, is unconventionally terse and sarcastic. It hits hard. It is the same as the conservatives. It is Lowbrow and unprofessional. I understand the mocking the California governor is using, and it gets right to the point. Yet, the governor takes complete responsibility for his actions. Others not so much… I don’t support some of the drastic decisions by networks censoring their help… but that is private enterprise… the loopholes of private enterprise cater to privilege and wealth.

Before I go further, the democratic party is not a radical leftist party. The democratic party is about as conservative as Reagan’s republican party of the 1980’s. The democratic socialists like Sanders are more centrist than left. Go look at some actual political analysis by independent and academic researchers. They will back that up. The United States is at the cusp of far-right fascism. I found this article from the Pew Research Center very interesting as there is evidence here to support my hypothesis as well as disagree with my hypothesis. I chose this Pew study as it isn’t an academic one as I am considering my own bias here. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology/

What should be done? Every conservative and lesser conservative needs to tone the rhetoric down. None of us have an excuse for using it. As President Obama has stated, “the country is at an inflection point.”

If the conservatives start using the power of the government to silence their enemies without taking responsibility for their own rhetoric it is up to the courts to be our final line of defense before the country tears itself up in a civil war. The demagoguery being used by the conservatives has no justifiable back bone or evidence to support its fleecing of the American people. Neoliberal capitalism, greed, and exceptional privilege have reached their peak. There is no where to go, but down for them… They only have extremism to hold the thin tether of control. We must rise above this.

If the lesser conservatives continue to use inflammatory language it will fail miserably in winning over anyone longterm. If you want to change the narrative you have to present facts in committee, in the press, and everywhere else in between. Truth is powerful and lies can’t hold themselves up. Kash Patel found this out in a committee meeting. His loss of composure is failure in action. Yelling is all they have right now. Our civil protests, our letters, our logical facts are the enemy. We on the left and the lesser conservatives need to play the long game. We need to demonstrate responsibility for everything. This includes speech, writing, and how we consume media, products, or how we invest.

All of us that care need to stop spending our money with the neoliberals that profit off of our taxes. We need to boycott their businesses. Move our assets away from them. The governors may need to consider alternative means of protest. This silent and responsible protest will infuriate the conservatives. Let them boil in their own soup of rhetoric. We are all better than this. Even the good people who believe in good conservatism without the rhetoric of extremism need to enter this practice.

I am choosing my words carefully. I am leaving names out of this. I am simply trying to be objective in a time where objectivity has imploded. The short attention span of the American public is hooked by a media and government controlled narrative rather than objective facts. It is time to disengage from that media storm and read the news from our allies overseas. They can provide the objectivity we need at this time. Keep dissenting… keep fighting… …so it goes…