Thread by @l78lancer

There's no need for these to exist. So, America needs to end them.

While the agents behind them claim constitutionality and constitutional rights, their reality tend to be anti-constitutional, anti-republicanism, and antidemocratic in letter, spirit and purpose.

All of them exist in some for as organizations and corporations under the guise that corporate entities having the same 14th amendment rights and protections as people. Yet they all are tax sheltered from the government - which is a right that individuals do not have.

So perhaps ending the concept of corporations being people and ending the tax protections that corporations and organizations receive should be item 0. on the list, and part of the predicate and basis for their elimination.

1. Militias, neo-fascists, and white supremacists.

- They aren't about preserving freedom of speech or preserving the second amendment. They never have been. They are terrorist groups animated primarily by racism, ethno-bigotry, and misogynistic oppression.

2. The Federalist Society, Heritage Society, the American Enterprise Institute, and Hudson Institute

They have less to do with promoting conservative ideals, values, and policy than dismantling norms, establishing values and ideals for autocracy and despotism, and suppression...

...of individual rights of others who do not share their views while often claiming libertarian views. They also use purported founders view or "originalist" interpretation of the constitution, religious protections, free speech, and social grievances as the justification...

...to diminish real rights and freedoms of others. Their views are promoted as research, academics, and government policy when their products are frequently anti-science, ahistorical, and counterfactual.

While these entities function nationally, there are state and local organizations as associations that implement the ideological and policy objectives, in an effort to bring them to reality. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is one such organization.

3. Church involvement in government and politics.

While the government as a constitutionally proscribed and sacred role to preserve freedom of religion for every individual and belief - as well as the rights of nonbelievers, atheists, agnostics, and others -

Church and religious involvement in government serves in actuality to further oppression and promotion of theocratic autocracy. the diminution and dismantling of individual rights, and undergirds long standing problems of race, bigotry, homophobia, and gender-based oppression.

4. The NRA, Gun Owners of America, The Second Amendment Association.

- While the NRA began it's history providing training and technical advice to the military, it's purpose has changed. It primarily promotes gun sales and often condones gun violence.

They are numerous other gun rights organizations promote racialized politics. Their mandates are less about second amendment freedom to defend against a rogue or oppressive government than to maximize the number of unmonitored, unregulated, unregistered guns in the nation...

...to preserve the ability to engage in and promote intimidation, gun violence and political manipulation and influence while being protected by legislation through lobbyist efforts. The underlying goal is to maximize profits for gun manufacturers.

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