Pasayten's Methow Valley Bulletin Board

I have actually read all of those books.

And you seem to have drawn the wrong conclusions from them. If your thesis is that any kind of organized society inevitably leads to tyranny.

The whole point of a lot of institutions and cultural baggage we have, from a free press to an independent judiciary to limited government to free markets, are largely there to create a better society and a better conditions for humans to flourish, and also make it so that we have to really work at it to end up living in tyranny. They are all tools to create that better world, and like any tool you need to use the appropriate tool for the task. Using a chainsaw when you need tweezers is just going to make a huge mess. And there has been a lot of that going around in recent decades.

Unfortunately these days a lot of people seem to be really working for tyranny.

And no, you can't characterize the far left and democrats (even though they aren't even the same thing) as advocating for "government control of everything". Not even remotely close.

Most in TX don't realize that TX takes back more in Fed'l taxes than they pay in. Without representation in Congress TX would struggle mightily.

Mister coffee, have you actually read 1984 or Animal Farm or Fahrenheit 451? Do you not get government control is at the root of all of them? Do you not know the far left and dem party is in huge alignment with government control of everything? This projection game is being seen through by many people and I don’t think your mis-direction is going to work anymore. Good luck this fall!

Perhaps they should succede. Then when they are burning up or freezing and starving to death, they can't call on the rest of us to help them.
This is radicalized. Do we really think this could spread to other states? Is this a small faction?
This is not America. What country is it?

Maybe they need a good two minutes hate ...

Dear Republicans: _1984_ is a cautionary tale, not a how to guide.

Given that platform perhaps it was wise of the GOP to decline to have any platform at all in the 2020 election.

The Republican party appears to be headed completely off the rails….

From today’s (6/19) Heather C Richardson column;

“…. delegates to a convention of the Texas Republican Party today approved platform planks rejecting “the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and [holding] that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States”; requiring students “to learn about the dignity of the preborn human,” including that life begins at fertilization; treating homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice”; locking the number of Supreme Court justices at 9; getting rid of the constitutional power to levy income taxes; abolishing the Federal Reserve; rejecting the Equal Rights Amendment; returning Christianity to schools and government; ending all gun safety measures; abolishing the Department of Education; arming teachers; requiring colleges to teach “free-market liberty principles”; defending capital punishment; dictating the ways in which the events at the Alamo are remembered; protecting Confederate monuments; ending gay marriage; withdrawing from the United Nations and the World Health Organization; and calling for a vote “for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.”

Yep, really.

Jim Archambeault