Excellent article - just an excerpt
Threatening to sic the Federal Bureau of Investigations on parents who dare to oppose dubious mask mandates, or reject the indoctrination of their children in critical race theory (CRT)—racial Marxism—in the schools we pay for, is the logical act of a ruling regime that has given up even the slightest pretense of representative government.
Legitimating the National School Board Association's (NSBA) call to pursue such parents as domestic terrorists betrays the ruling regime's thuggish, totalitarian core.
Totalitarian regimes classify dissent as domestic extremism and, under the guise of public health and/or public safety, hunt the dissenters with the full power of the national security apparatus.
The national security apparatus acts as a defender of the ruling regime, rather than as a defender of the people from whom, in a free society, the law derives its just authority.
This is the way it works in Communist China. The "People's Liberation Army" is the Chinese Communist Party's military, not the military of the people.
This is increasingly the way it works in America under President Joe Biden, Ruling Class avatar. The Biden administration has turned the national security apparatus against citizens who question everything from draconian coronavirus policies to election integrity to, now, CRT. It increasingly exists to protect the Biden administration, not our liberty and justice.
Critics are treated as a threat to "our democracy," a euphemism for the regime that it invokes to justify its own rule. By a threat to democracy, the regime means a threat to its control over virtually every aspect of society under the guise of a pandemic; to its control over the voting system; to its control over what your children learn in school. Critics therefore must be intimidated into silence.
The Ruling Class has resorted to using force over persuasion because it suffered something in its collective conscience approximating a near-death experience. Tens of millions of Americans demonstrated that they rejected the Ruling Class's orthodoxy, and questioned its legitimacy, by voting for Donald Trump—twice.
These Wrongthinkers who had the gall to challenge their betters' power, privilege and prestige could no longer be humored or reasoned with.
They had to be brought to heel. The executive branch that had once trained its sights on Trump would now turn to targeting those he represented.
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https://www.newsweek.com/biden-regim...pinion-1636417