Thread by @Doc_0

How can anyone think a State-sanctioned cartel of corporations, acting in unison to suppress speech that threatens the ruling Party, is consistent with the First Amendment? What inalienable right could not be easily stripped from the American people with such tactics?

Democrats are asserting that our Constitution provides absolutely no protection against State-directed mega-corporations acting as instruments of ruling Party orthodoxy.

The correct term for a system where capital is privately owned, but controlled by the State, is fascism.

So the Left is telling us: Surprise! After hundreds of years, we've just discovered the U.S. Constitution offers no protection whatsoever against fascist tyranny! As long as the State uses politically-controlled corporations as its agents, your silly little "rights" mean nothing!

This would all be blindingly obvious, widely lamented, and vigorously resisted if the new fascist fusion of State and corporate muscle was employed for right-wing ends, but because the new fascism is proudly of the Left, it is supported and sanctioned by media and academia.

This is a nasty little joke of history because the old fascism grew from the Left as well. Classical fascism was touted as the best way to secure the welfare of the people and correct historical injustices. It's not a gotcha game to remember it began as "national socialism."

There's nothing new about the strategy of using corporate muscle to exercise oppressive powers that are technically forbidden to the State. There's nothing new about claiming the ruling Party is synonymous with The People and crushing dissent as "disinformation."

A century after the first militaristic wave of fascism infected the industrialized world, we're dealing with the Delta Variant of fascism: private capital controlled by militant Party ideology and employed as State actors to bypass constitutional protections. /end