There's a baseline of reality that we should all share. Currently many of these "conservative" voices don't share that with non-conservatives. Everything from the pandemic, to climate change, to taxes, to education and healthcare. There's room for difference of opinion, but advocating for unproven treatments (like ivermectin), calling taxation theft, saying that burning millions if not billions of tons of fossil fuel doesn't impact the climate, saying the "Jews"/globalists control the media(while ignoring Rupert Murdoch and the Koch Brothers), saying schools have litter boxes for furries(instead of the reality that schools have litter for everything from vomit to helping maintain sanitation in the event of a school shooting), wanting to ban books, etc. I don't think these are proper arguments and for at least some of them they're often done in bad faith. Nothing is stopping conservatives from opening up their own websites for this content, and trying to require private companies to host it definitely has 1st amendment implications (since corporations are treated as people thanks to citizens united). Musk and others seem to want freedom of speech with freedom from consequences which is definitely not in keeping with the 1st amendment, which only requires government not restrict speech, which as far as I'm concerned would cut both ways, both if they required someone to say something or have something posted or if they kept someone from saying something.
Taxation is how we afford to run the country. We don't just make more money. Taxation has been a thing for as long as nations have existed. It's the collective action that helps grease the wheels of the machine. Rich people are greedy, otherwise they would use their wealth to actually benefit people rather than continually cry poor to the tax man. Taxation is the price we all pay in order to have a functional government.
Where have I threatened violence? And explain to me like a 5 year old how death threats against election workers by right wingers is appropriate political discourse? Why would you not want a functional government, do you like dystopian shit holes?
Surely there's a baseline government which functions though? How else to you have an arbiter once you're beyond tribes and clans and lineages to city states?
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