It is not difficult to predict what the left in the United States will do next. If you simply follow what other totalitarian governments are doing, or have done to gain more and more control, you will know what the American left will do next.
Aspiring tyrants, in order to enhance tyranny, have been predicable. This is not unique to the 21st century, but has been a tactic used by any who aspire to control a society through government mandates, forever. The American Revolution was fought to free the American Colonist from the tyranny of government. Because these people understood what it meant to be controlled by the mandates of government, or a tyrannical government, they wrote a document, called the Constitution of the United States. The people told the writers of that document that they would only ratify, or agree to follow it, if within the document specific liberties and freedoms were named and protected. These people understood that those in government were more interested in power than they were interested in protecting the rights and liberties of the people. Because of this justified fear, the Bill of Rights was added. This added to the constitution the language, which when read by anybody with even a rudimentary understanding of the English language, could only conclude that the Constitution of the United States prohibits any limiting of these rights and liberties in any way.
The difference between a free people and a people under the domination of government, which is the same difference of a free people or a people who are slaves to government, is the absolute protection of these rights and liberties. Paramount to people being free from government control or a people being slaves to government is the complete and total protection of a people being free from a government sponsored religion and the freedom to practice the religion of choice, the unrestricted freedoms of speech and assembly, and an impartial, a cynical, and a curious press free from the allegiance to any political philosophy. In a representative republic, it is also mandatory that an individual who meets requirements such as age and citizenship, not be disallowed from seeking elective office because of political philosophy.
All tyrannical aspirants, including the American left, have attacked and have sought to limit these essential freedoms. The American left, it is critical to note, includes not only the Democrat party, which has become the Communist Party of the United states, but it also includes many who would call them selves moderate Republicans, better known as RINO’s, who are in fact “useful idiots” to the aspiring tyrant.
In the Untied States today, we now have a government sponsored religion which is known as either secularism or statism. The collectivist (Marxist, communist, socialist, progressive, Democrat, - all virtually the same) movement has declared war specifically on all Judaeo-Christian religions as they seek to eliminate any reference to God, as directed by Marx and done in all Communist takeovers. Americans, who declare their allegiance to God, are prohibited from free practice of their religion. This is a direct violation of the First Amendment.
Our freedom to practice free speech is also being limited by government and the American left who promotes censorship of speech, banishing what they call damaging books, and limiting information on social media and college campuses. This is a direct violation of the First Amendment.
Our freedom to peaceably assemble is also being limited by government and the American left. If our assembly is for the purpose of opposing the tyrannical movement of the left, our right is denied, or the assembly is targeted by thugs of the left. If the assembly is for the purpose of promoting tyrannical government, the term peaceably is declared to include rioting, looting, arson, assault, and even murder. This is a direct violation of the First Amendment.
Our press is no longer a free press, but is has become a political press, interested only in promoting the aspirations of the American left in their quest to bring about a tyrannical government. This is a direct violation of the First Amendment.
We are now hearing from the American left that those of us who believe, as did our founders, that the total protection of the rights and liberties per our Constitution is absolute, are declared to be extremists, as enemies of the people, and the biggest threat to our national security. This is setting the stage to restrict who can and who cannot be a candidate for office. Once again, the American left will follow in the footsteps of another aspiring tyrant in their quest for total domination by government over the freedoms of the people.
In Putin’s Russia, a bill that would prohibit would-be politicians with links to ‘extremist’ groups from standing for office has been waved through its first reading in Russia’s national parliament, as part of efforts to limit foreign interference. If passed, it would ban people who had held leadership positions in organizations handed the extremist designation by a court, from running in elections for five years after the decision was issued. The real purpose of this law is to prohibit any person with ties to Alexei Navalny from seeking office. (If you do not know who Alexei Navalny is, shame on you)
We are witnessing attacks on political opponents of the American left every day. We hear the word extremist commonly used by the likes of Biden, Schumer, Pelosi, and of course the squad virtually daily. We heard Biden declare that white supremacists (no definition of white supremacist) are the biggest national security threat in an address to the nation. We just witnessed a fraudulently conducted election to swing and manufacture votes to assure false vote totals to place proponents of tyrannical government in office.
My prediction is that the American left will not stop with their effort to assure the continuance of fraudulent elections, but we will also see a bill put forth by the American left to do exactly what Putin is doing, prohibiting political opponents he has designated as extremists from seeking office. This is a direct violation of our Constitutional Republic.