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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

I chuckled when I read this excerpt:

"It is the type of argument commonly used in China and other authoritarian nations–and an increasing number of American academics and writers. Indeed, his column is reminiscent of the professors who have called for the adoption of the Chinese model for censoring views on the Internet."

Reich, for a highly credentialed professor at Berkley, is a profoundly stupid man and huge hypocrite who would lie to his own mother if it served his ideological fantasies. French author, Jean Francois-Revel captured the mind set of academics like Reich and highly placed bureaucrats like Goldsmith (or the op-ed fool Thomas Freidman @NYT), when he wrote in his excellent book, "The Last Exit to Utopia" that :he found "that the mind-set of Western Intellectuals who, living in democracies, found much to admire in gulag countries like the old Soviet Union and Cuba (now China) and much to detest in free ones-like the USA. "Why was that," he asked. "The Totalitarian phenomenon," he observed, "is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or-much more mysteriously-to submit to it."

I found this to be an interesting observation and spot on.Turley has been highlighting these intellectual inconsistencies for some time and despite the fact he leans left for the most part he does remain true to the notion that our fundamental rights and laws under the constitution are more than worth our time to fight for their preservation.

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vharlow@harlowhome.com's avatar

Don’t forget the bureaucracy! The USPS is supposed to hold imaging files of all mail for six years! But in 2020, it stopped and held it no longer than 30 days. Hmmm. Then after the files that might show ballot mailings were deleted, in early 2021, they started keeping the files as required by law for six years again. It was April before the audit in Maricopa started….and the Republican senate didn’t want Runbeck or the USPS subpoenaed for records. Runbeck printed almost a million extra ballots! No accounting for those extras at all! no routers, no splunk logs. four of six Maricopa Supervisors are republicans, and the Republicans on the Senate called for the audit, yet didn’t want the fraud or forensic findings to be in the issued audit report. Brnovitch is running for the Senate, but is really not doing the right thing and prosecuting the obvious election fraud. Laws were broken. But politics trumps all for Republicans these days….it’s all just a Uniparty. They aren’t on our side.

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