The American right suffers from a chronic inability to know what time it is, and nowhere has that fact been made clearer than the recent death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. do not have.
Navalny, 47, is an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin. died suddenly While serving a long prison sentence for “extremism”. The natural instinct in such a situation is to condemn the Putin regime’s political repression, but the criminalization of political dissent occurring within its own system has left the United States with no moral standing to criticize other countries. ing.
The idea that right-wingers should be spending their time criticizing other countries’ democratic processes at this point is absurd.
Still, many conservative politicians and experts ben shapiro told Republicans on Twitter that while the Biden administration did engage in weaponizing the justice system, comparisons to Putin’s Russia were unfair.
Frankly, this is insane. If the right does not wake up to what is happening in America, conservatives will become victims of an administration that has every intention of imprisoning its opponents.
Let me be clear: I am convinced that Vladimir Putin is a very bad man who does not care about the interests of my family or my country. Whether he wants to conquer the world and establish a Russian fascist world empire, as many neocons and leftists claim, is another matter. But I am sure that President Putin is not my friend.
But there is an intolerable absurdity in Western leaders like Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden, who repeatedly imprison and repress their opponents and lecture on the importance of democratic norms. Failure to understand that our domestic political repression is far more important than condemning the actions of distant foreign leaders is a critical shift in perspective within the conservative movement. It shows a lack of ability to
Americans have become accustomed to being the world’s hegemon, and it shows. Our leaders have assumed the right to dictate the actions of foreign rulers, and our political pundits enjoy strutting about the superiority of our system.
We like the idea of being the leaders of the free world, but it only works if we can maintain freedom at home. we haven’t.
Twitter poster Douglas McKee sentenced to imprisonment To make memes. More than 1,300 Americans have been indicted for protesting the January 6, 2021 presidential election, many of whom have had their due process rights thrown into the trash. Former President Donald Trump, Joe Biden’s main political opponent, has been arrested on multiple false charges, and several states are trying to strip him from the ballot. Many of Trump’s lawyers and government officials have had his life ruined by politically motivated prosecutions. The list of attacks on our political freedoms is almost endless and only growing.
A system originally established to protect Americans from enemies both domestic and foreign is now dedicated to punishing opponents of the system. The FBI is monitoring Catholics attending traditional Latin Masses, the Justice Department is pursuing absurd charges against pro-life protesters, and the Department of Homeland Security is treating Trump supporters like domestic terrorists. .
Thanks to you twitter file and recent reports mike benz We at the Freedom Online Foundation know that domestic security and intelligence agencies are colluding with social media companies to control America’s election process, using the same tactics they use to incite color revolutions abroad. Masu. The idea that right-wingers should be spending their time criticizing other countries’ democratic processes at this point is absurd.
The United States does not exist in a geopolitical vacuum. Countries like China, Russia, and Iran will not stop pursuing their interests just because Americans have problems at home. But conservatives must understand that while these countries represent some level of opposition to our national interests, none of them is a major threat to the freedoms of the American people.
As horrifying as it is to admit, the most dangerous threat to the freedoms of the American people is a ruling class that seeks to strip its people of their most fundamental constitutional rights in the name of protecting “our democracy.”
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping may pose a threat to America’s international interests, but who cares whether those interests are driven by a ruling class that hates average Americans?
President Putin did not shoot unarmed veteran Ashli Babbitt.
President Putin is not promoting an invasion of America’s southern border.
President Putin is not pushing transgender propaganda on the country’s schoolchildren.
President Putin does not allow rampant violent crime in American cities.
President Putin is not stealing American taxpayer money through debt and inflation to fund foreign wars.
Again, I am convinced that President Putin is an evil person who wishes misfortune for this country, but it is not he who is causing irreparable damage to our Motherland.
The oldest trick in political strategy is to distract the public with foreign threats in order to obscure the malign actions of the domestic ruling class. This does not mean that the United States does not have more real adversaries abroad, but the United States’ main focus is on the ongoing weaponization of the justice system and attempts to criminalize political opposition at home. We must remain within the Biden administration’s efforts to do so.
Christ instructed us to remove the log from our own eye before we remove the speck from our brother’s eye. Before criticizing other countries’ lack of political freedom, we need to ensure our own political freedom.
