The standard GOP line (including the Trumpist line) is that you don't have to worry about increased police/FBI/Border Patrol/NatSec authority. The real tyranny comes from agencies like OSHA and the EPA. Nullifying the fourth amendment is fine; it's trying to put safety regulations in mines and so forth that destroy all our freedoms.
I do not consider the Trump voting base aligned with the GOP, the GOP is just what Trump had to run under. Trump supporters care more about policy, than party lines. Also, Trump supporters only supported ICE/Boarder security, hated the FBI, and didn't trust the government overall. Trump also deregulated and cut back on EPA power. Trump supporters have almost always had a anti-government stance. They support the police, because they actually understand how dangerous and difficult the job is. What people never understood though, is police are designed to for protection of their own, not the "citizen" that poses a threat. That is the only way you can get people to be police officers, is if the training helps protect them from dying on the job.
A bit late to change course on that. It's obvious to everyone that the only reason you've started caring about any of this is that you are worrying, especially with a change in control of the government, than it might start affecting you instead of asylum seekers or African-Americans.
The only thing I am worried about is the potential for a one party system, complete censorship of dissenting opinions of the Left. "Asylum seekers" are not what they are. They are just people trying to cut the line, and not pay immigration taxes legally. This is a big fuck you to people who do it by our laws. Which I think, is wrong. Get the fuck in line.
But explain to me why I should care about you being threatened more than anyone else? You've made a point of showing that you aren't on board with the movement Blacks had against government overreach and tyranny. You didn't care about asylum seekers being deported even though asylum is a legal mechanism (also keep in mind that overthrowing the U.S. government is against the law) for entering the United States.
Big difference between the treatment of non citizens, and citizens. Because I would be protected under the constitution, non-citizens are not for the most part. My issue with the BLM movement, is its unfounded. It wasn't based on government overreach or tyranny, but ofc you will disagree. Like I said before, they are not "asylum seekers", they are people who are just trying to get in for free because their country sucks. To seek asylum, you have to be a neighboring country. You cannot be from Somalia, and seek asylum in the USA. And even if they are seeing asylum, they have to actually be actively persecuted by their government. LEts say for example, white farmers in South Africa have legal claim to asylum. Not people who are poor, and want to escape their shithole country.
Explain to me why I shouldn't care about any of that, but I should care about you being afraid of what the government might do. You chose not to stand with other Americans when they were suffering from tyranny. You've made it clear that you don't care about tyranny at all unless you are afraid it might affect you personally. By ignoring and ridiculing people when they pointed out warning signs, you and others in the Trump/GOP cult have given other Americans little reason to trust you.
Our definitions of tyranny must differ quite a bit. I don't consider words tyranny. I don't consider people being mean, tyranny. I consider actions against a group of people, to deplatform, silence, remove, and criminalize others, tyranny. Name one example of tyranny in the USA against leftists, without using buzzwords. Ill wait.
You can't cheer Kyle Rittenhouse on for shooting protestors and then suddenly expect people to take you seriously when you complain about tyranny when the government is about to change hands. You can't support Border Patrol being dispatched to American cities and rounding up protestors and expect people to take you seriously when you espouse the virtues of federalism. You can't support people in concentration camps and expect people to take you seriously when you decry authoritarianism.
Assumptions. I never said a single thing about Kyle Rittenhouse, go project somewhere else and do not accuse me of things other people have done. You are talking to me, not anyone else. I supported enforcement of the law, nothing more. ICE wasn't rounding up "protesters". What "Virtues of federalism" have I espoused? What concentration camps have I supported? When did I support authoritarianism. This is a whole fucking truckload of projection and deflection because you can't cope with the fact 74m Americans disagreed with you.
