Thread by @JMichaelWaller

1) People should pay close attention to @ggreenwald. Agree with him or not on certain issues, he projects a sincere and principled wisdom of universal value. realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/01/…

2) "'A lot of times if you warn of a danger you have to piece things together in order to demonstrate that it's actually coming,' Greenwald said. 'In this case, you don't have to. They are explicitly saying precisely what they want to do.'"

3) "What struck me so much about that John Brennan video is it would be one thing if they were saying, 'Look, there is a band of people, 20 here, 50 over here who wear swastika armbands, who are still in the KKK. There's maybe 2,000.'"

4) "'That's not what they're saying,' [Greenwald] continued. 'They are saying the exact opposite. Every group he [@JohnBrennan] listed, even libertarians, essentially he's defining the insurgency as anyone who has an ideology other than neoliberalism."

5) "... what they are talking bout, explicitly, is using the tools they used to take ISIS off the internet, the tools that they use to destroy al Qaeda. They're talking about it as a second War on Terror."

The targets are fellow Americans who think differently.

6) "'One that is borne by name of being a domestic war on terror, designed to essentially criminalize any oppositional ideology to the ruling class,' Greenwald warned. 'There is literally nothing that could be more dangerous, and it's not fearmongering or alarmism to say it.'"

7) "There are bills pending by Adam Schiff as well that would simply take the existing War on Terror legislation always aimed at foreign governments and foreign actors, and simply amend it to say we can now do that within the United States," Greenwald said.

8) "Who is going to stand up in opposition to this?' Carlson asked. 'I don't see any of the corporate Republican caucus really even noticing. I see a lot of people who I thought were liberals not liberal at all but more authoritarian. So how do we prevent this from happening?'"

9) "There is a ruling class elite that it's extremely comfortable with the establishment wings of both parties... They love Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer as much as they love Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan," Greenwald said.

10) "Those are the people who they fund equally because those of the people who serve their agenda."