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I just wish it were a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.

Yes, I know. You'd rather ban that language. I would rather people be allowed to say whatever they like (outside of the yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater direct-harm examples) so they can be convinced they are wrong (or prove they are right.) I understand how you can't permit that sort of freedom, since it would undermine your position. I agree. Right wing terrorism is at an all time high. A record number of republicans think violence is the right way to solve the country's problems. Trump has LITERALLY BANNED WORDS from all government communications. I am sorry you don't understand this; I suspect it's your steady diet of Breitbart, OAN and FOX News that results in your ignorance on topics like this. List below: https://pen.org/banned-words-list/ Anyone can out them all they like. But your side knows it will lose that challenge, so you ban them instead, Nope. Specifically they are Trump's. Again, if you got outside your OAN/Breitbart/FOX bubble you'd see that.

Let me help because a new old America now exists. The US is currently led by a dictator King out for blood. He only hires loyal servants who obey without question. The courts are nothing but a speed bump. A federal judge appointed by Reagan stated that “The effect of these targeted deportation proceedings continues unconstitutionally to chill freedom of speech to this day,” .. William Young concluded, in a scathing, 161-page opinion that he described as the most crucial he’s delivered in his 30 years on the bench. Previously US judges ruled that many actions of the King are unconstitutional. Those opinions mattered not in the King's kingdom. Oyez, oyez, oyez, from the town criers on FOX there was no criticism or even mention of those opinions. In the public markets there was no criticism of the King because people didn't want to be put to the sword. Commanders who served bravely in the armies of the land were brought together. They listened in silence as the naked King berated them, praised himself and promised vengeance on his enemies.

Now that you ask, I guess I am. I haven't been to a single protest to confront the goons, I'm not a member of any peaceful or armed groups organizing in opposition, nor I have not contributed to the writing of any manifestos. Pretty much, like the rest of us here, I have contained myself to deploring the situation and arguing online with folks too simple minded to see what is happening unlike my superior self. How's about you?

Yes, to my darling wife. The joy of my life and my guiding light. You?

My wife said she was good at multitasking. But I don't think she really is. The other night I told her to sit down and shut up, and she couldn’t do either!