Thread by @mhbx

@tommy_pane @CrisesMimetic @cdsmith80 @DominicNeiman @MarlaYouTourist @mtaibbi It is foolish to engage you any more.. We are not in agreement at the foundational levels. Not about liberty.
But the fact, now fully exposed, that you are willing, happy even, to engage violence to gain your "liberty".
You, along w Trump, the leader, and the tribe the

@tommy_pane @CrisesMimetic @cdsmith80 @DominicNeiman @MarlaYouTourist @mtaibbi 2/ doers, you are willing to breach the fundamental principle of 'The rule of law', and 'No one is above the law'.
You will cite revolutions of the past, maybe even the American Rev.
And I will laugh that you would equate what is happening now with then.

@tommy_pane @CrisesMimetic @cdsmith80 @DominicNeiman @MarlaYouTourist @mtaibbi 3/ The model before us now, and what has always been the underlying issue w Trump, and Trumpism, is not the Am Rev which brought us the ability to even think about such things as Free Speech et al.
But 1930's Germany, and the #Brownshirts and the devotion to the goal of getting

@tommy_pane @CrisesMimetic @cdsmith80 @DominicNeiman @MarlaYouTourist @mtaibbi 4/ power. Solidifying power & then remaking the rules, laws, and society to force absolute conforming to the new dynasty/leader.
There is no deep, profound, amazing philosophy in play w Trump, nor his current day #Brownshirts.

Our problem/debate is that you won't/cant see this.

@tommy_pane @CrisesMimetic @cdsmith80 @DominicNeiman @MarlaYouTourist @mtaibbi 5/ This assessment has been proven true:

"He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again. He has compromised our elections, and he will do so again.
You will not change him. You cannot constrain him.
Truth matters little to him. What's right matters even less"

@tommy_pane @CrisesMimetic @cdsmith80 @DominicNeiman @MarlaYouTourist @mtaibbi 6/ All of this and so much more. Everything I have every proposed as an idea, principle, or example whether Trump or more explicitly Trump-ism you bat away with a glib
"Kleptocracy". Offering not the slightest response to how complex societies are, or can be, actually organized.

@tommy_pane @CrisesMimetic @cdsmith80 @DominicNeiman @MarlaYouTourist @mtaibbi 7/ Underlying all of this is the very real issue of human nature & power. The Constitutional form attempts to deal with this according to those embodied principles.
Authoritarianism does it differently.

It is amusing, with no actual humor, you think "the market" will do it all.

@tommy_pane @CrisesMimetic @cdsmith80 @DominicNeiman @MarlaYouTourist @mtaibbi 8/ Or whatever structure or organization you propose. Every system has profound, axiomatic principles & values that enable whatever shows up in the society, & also defines what is possible to show up.

This is my foundational perspective.

Liberty is rooted in deeper principles.