The eradication of dissenting opinion is the terrifying thing.
Nearly as terrifying as the otherwise intelligent people seeming to cheer for the authoritarianism.
Nearly as terrifying as the otherwise intelligent people seeming to cheer for the authoritarianism.
Eradication of dissension on the first is concerning (yes, even for tax policies that have been empirically shown to be utter bullshit).
Eradication of dissension on the second is more in the nature of A Very Good Idea If We Want Democracy To Continue.
The notion of external opinions being crammed down through threat of deplatforming and blacklisting is scary stuff.
I urge reconsideration.
What they're not welcome to do is inflame the public against the legitimately elected government with easily-disproven lies about the legitimacy of that election.
Inflame with differing political opinion? Sure. Inflame with genuine possible electoral tampering? Fine. Believe easily-disproven lies in the privacy of their own heads? Go for it.
But once they're trying to spread lies like that—and especially when they use those lies to incite a literal violent insurrection against our government—they've crossed a line.
At this point, claiming there is any doubt means you are asserting an unprecedentedly massive conspiracy. It doesn't make you fair-minded, nonpartisan, or somehow above the fray. It makes you either deliberately attempting to sow unfounded doubt, or so ludicrously and willfully blind that you might as well be complicit in the attempt to overthrow the government.