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  1. ‘This is an important perspective - our current international order is about a lot more than trade, tariffs and investment. It is about peace, security, development, climate change, shared standards, and respect for law, including human rights and international humanitarian law. We diminish ourselves and what’s at stake dramatically by limiting the conversation to “rules based order”, as if conventions on genocide and torture, for example, are mere “rules”. Much of the current neo-liberal and more conservative commentary misses this point entirely.’

    Bob Rae

    #WorldOrder
    #DefensiveDemocracy
    #Canada
    #KickAtTheDarknessTilItBleedsDaylight

    substack.com/@bobrae48/note/c-

  2. @oppophonist @johnettesnuggs The German design of Defensive Democracy appears to be pretty effective & appealing model:

    "The idea behind the concept is the notion that even a majority rule of the people cannot be allowed to install a totalitarian or autocratic regime such as with the Enabling Act of 1933, thereby violating the principles of the German constitution, the Basic Law."

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensiv

    #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution

  3. @soc_i_ety 💪 Protect & defend democracy! To keep the Rule of the People alive.

    The Civil War was a violent, murderous rebellion of a minority disrespecting the democratic principle of majority rule, as expressed by Lincoln's election victory.
    It was a rebellion against democracy, humanity, civility & community.
    It was intolerable then & it's intolerable today, being as anti-American as it can get, if the words of the Declaration of Independence & its product, the United States Constitution are supposed to be taken seriously.

    #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice

  4. @nedhamson On July 2, 1864 the Wade-Davis bill on the Reconstruction of the South passed both chambers of Congress, but Lincoln regrettably vetoed it.

    🤔 Maybe an updated Ironclad Oath should be mandatory today, looking especially at those dubious congressional MAGA aggressors from the South turning the House into a circus of militant anti-constitutional hooligans.

    #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #NewIroncladOath

  5. @WackyIdeas @New_Narrative @edgeoforever It's very likely overdue to stop thinking of today's "Republicans" as a normal electable "political party" respecting the Constitution & Americans' democracy.
    Decades-long anti-constitutional racist voter suppression, representing corporate interests rather than the electorate's, senatorial acquittal of a twice-impeached career criminal, who a shocking equally sociopathic majority of "GOP's voters thinks he did nothing wrong, more that 140 congressional "GOPers" voting to overthrow a non-"Republican" government-elect, dozens of "Republican" Attorneys General harassing the Supreme Court/federal courts to overthrow the results of the 2020 election should be disqualifying enough for any "Republican" candidacy for parliamentary representation, be it in states or on federal level.

    #RuleOfLaw #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #BanTheGOP #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #Insurrection #Overthrow #NationalSecurityThreat #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #EnemiesOfLaw #PublicDanger #ProsecuteALLRebels #DisqualifyALLRebels

  6. @marcelias The anti-American anti-democratic "Republican" party of dishonesty & disenfranchisement shouldn't even be on the ballot.
    Accept the rules of democracy to guarantee free & fair elections or take time off to rethink your strategy of obstructing & disrupting electoral processes.
    Oppressive Confederates in "Republican" clothing are zombies of the past.

    #DefendAmerica #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DisqualifyTheGOP #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #AttackingAmerica #DefraudingAmerica

  7. @marcelias The anti-American anti-democratic "Republican" party of dishonesty & disenfranchisement shouldn't even be on the ballot.
    Accept the rules of democracy to guarantee free & fair elections or take time off to rethink your strategy of obstructing & disrupting electoral processes.
    Oppressive Confederates in "Republican" clothing are zombies of the past.

    #DefendAmerica #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DisqualifyTheGOP #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #AttackingAmerica #DefraudingAmerica

  8. @marcelias The anti-American anti-democratic "Republican" party of dishonesty & disenfranchisement shouldn't even be on the ballot.
    Accept the rules of democracy to guarantee free & fair elections or take time off to rethink your strategy of obstructing & disrupting electoral processes.
    Oppressive Confederates in "Republican" clothing are zombies of the past.

    #DefendAmerica #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DisqualifyTheGOP #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #AttackingAmerica #DefraudingAmerica

  9. @marcelias The anti-American anti-democratic "Republican" party of dishonesty & disenfranchisement shouldn't even be on the ballot.
    Accept the rules of democracy to guarantee free & fair elections or take time off to rethink your strategy of obstructing & disrupting electoral processes.
    Oppressive Confederates in "Republican" clothing are zombies of the past.

    #DefendAmerica #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DisqualifyTheGOP #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #AttackingAmerica #DefraudingAmerica

  10. @PiousunynHeretic @georgetakei Without being personal, I also hope you're wrong on this.
    Germany lost its democracy once, drew its conclusions & codified its constitution to be able to defend against any organization trying to infringe or even remove most basic human rights & essential foundations of post-WWII German democracy.
    So even if there'd be an extremist, anti-democratic majority in parliament it wouldn't be able to abridge or even remove the most important articles of the constitution protecting elementary human rights or the constitution itself.
    It's the essence of a #DefensiveDemocracy.

  11. @hannu_ikonen @Tbsa Which didn't eliminate opposing social democratic news outlets until dying Reich president Hindenburg was weak enough to be no longer able to resist Nazi pressure & false promises so he agreed to make Hitler Reich chancellor, subsequently leading to the infamous ' Law for the protection of Reich & state', which gave Hitler all the powers he needed & wanted to wipe every democratic opposition off the German parliament's floor — until the end of Hitler's "1000-year Reich" — 12 years on.

    Care to watch the circulation of power at home is the message!
    Care for the democratic right to vote near & far!

    #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #VotingRights #FreedomOfInformation #FreePress #FreeSpeech #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice

  12. Time to see the "GOP" for what it is.

    Neuroscientist on the largest & most dangerous cult threatening America in history:

    "...There was a time when the two major political parties in America could exhibit bipartisanship by moving across the aisle to compromise on the issues on which they were legislating...

    There were largely two sides of the issue and some areas for compromise.

    This is no longer possible in today’s sociopolitical climate. Although members of the GOP still refer to themselves as a political party with principled stances, the reality is they have now morphed into a domestic terror organization and to use the umbrella term, a cult – the largest and most dangerous cult in American history."

    An anti-American congressional terror cult even threatening to sabotage federal law enforcement on behalf of & in retaliation for the Mar-A-Loco career criminal, by defunding the FBI.

    alternet.org/alternet-exclusiv
    #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #SaveLives #BanTheGOP #TerrorOrganization #TerrorCult #Insurrection #DomesticTerrorism #OrganizedCrime #CriminalNetwork #ProsecuteALLRebels #DisqualifyALLRebels

  13. @marcelias Updated translation of not only Wisconsin's insurrectionary "GOP":

    *** Gang Of Putschists ***

    What else but disqualification should the organized subversion of electoral process & infrastructure, including election officials & judiciary earn the criminal network constantly violating constitutional regulations & rules it's deliberately offending & breaking, in its organized rebellion against the authority of the United States?!

    #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #15thAmendment #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #BanTheGOP #ProsecuteALLRebels #DisqualifyALLRebels #14thAmendmentSection3 #14thAmendmentSection2

  14. @marcelias Updated translation of not only Wisconsin's insurrectionary "GOP":

    *** Gang Of Putschists ***

    What else but disqualification should the organized subversion of electoral process & infrastructure, including election officials & judiciary earn the criminal network constantly violating constitutional regulations & rules it's deliberately offending & breaking, in its organized rebellion against the authority of the United States?!

    #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #15thAmendment #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #BanTheGOP #ProsecuteALLRebels #DisqualifyALLRebels #14thAmendmentSection3 #14thAmendmentSection2

  15. @marcelias Updated translation of not only Wisconsin's insurrectionary "GOP":

    *** Gang Of Putschists ***

    What else but disqualification should the organized subversion of electoral process & infrastructure, including election officials & judiciary earn the criminal network constantly violating constitutional regulations & rules it's deliberately offending & breaking, in its organized rebellion against the authority of the United States?!

    #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #15thAmendment #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #BanTheGOP #ProsecuteALLRebels #DisqualifyALLRebels #14thAmendmentSection3 #14thAmendmentSection2

  16. @marcelias Updated translation of not only Wisconsin's insurrectionary "GOP":

    *** Gang Of Putschists ***

    What else but disqualification should the organized subversion of electoral process & infrastructure, including election officials & judiciary earn the criminal network constantly violating constitutional regulations & rules it's deliberately offending & breaking, in its organized rebellion against the authority of the United States?!

    #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #15thAmendment #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #BanTheGOP #ProsecuteALLRebels #DisqualifyALLRebels #14thAmendmentSection3 #14thAmendmentSection2

  17. Career inciter Tucker Carlson has found his favorite role model for the United States in Hungary's Viktor Orban's illiberal state.
    One thing, that fascinates Carlson is, that - as he claims - Hungary’s press “is much freer than ours.”

    Which is of course another brazen & spiteful lie of Tucker Carlson.

    There is almost no free press left in Orban's oppressive anti-democratic autocracy.

    Don't allow anyone to abuse democracy to remove democracy! Corrupt Orban's Hungary is a warning to us all.

    justsecurity.org/88319/tucker-
    #RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendAmerica #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #MotherTuckerCarlson #IncitementOfThePublic #Subversion #Insurrection #Overthrow #IlliberalHungary #OrbansAutocracyInEurope #IlliberalState #Hungary

  18. @georgetakei True! Freedom of Speech was handled more generously at a time, when the American colonies rose to shake off the Brits' despotic rulership.
    More generously than what must be applied facing an existential domestic threat abusing constitutionally guaranteed liberties to abolish exactly those liberties designed to benefit the public.

    Reminder: Hitler was born Austrian, Germany wasn't an Austrian colony, Hitler became German citizen - and a domestic extremist/terrorist, at the end of the day overthrowing the Weimar democracy from within, benefiting from the liberties & loopholes post-imperial German democracy fatally allowed him to exploit.

    #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice

  19. @squig @Yoshi Well, democracy certainly has its downsides, too.

    However, there's no fairer form of government giving people their share on decisions that'll impact everyone's life & wellbeing.

    And there's no form of government that needs to be defended against its enemies more than democracy.
    To keep your voice counted & able to be raised, whenever necessary.

    #RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #YourDemocracy #KeepIt

  20. @marcelias Disruption of the right to vote is not a First Amendment right.

    It's organized crime, perpetrated by criminal organizations, not normal "parties".

    It's criminal abuse of the freedoms & liberties of democracy for the sake of destroying democracy.

    It's exactly, what Hitler & his Nazis did in Germany to destroy democracy & establish a mass-murderous, racist dictatorship, leading to near-total devastation of a whole continent & tens of millions of dead.

    #RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #Despotism #EnemiesOfTheConstitution

  21. @jobsboils @Piousunyn Hardcore sociopaths like Trump could certainly be capable of ignoring all ethical, legal & humanitarian limits.

    Therefore official approval of candidates for public & presidential office should require prior thorough mental health checks to disqualify them, if necessary & protect the public against sociopaths like Trump, who are 100% guaranteed to abuse every power they're given.

    salon.com/2022/06/27/dr-lance-
    #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #ReconstructionAmendments #14thAmendmentSection3 #Trump #Sociopaths #NationalSecurityThreat

  22. @KimPerales Right! Spectacularly citing polls downplays the "GOP's" hostility towards the United States' constitutional order, legitimizing an entity profoundly hostile to the Rule of the (not only white) People aka "democracy".

    Question to "Republicans": How will your policies in any way strengthen Americans' democracy & enforce their human & civil rights?

    Expected answer: ...

    #RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #GOPIsNotAParty #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #RuleOfThePeople

  23. @KimPerales Right! Spectacularly citing polls downplays the "GOP's" hostility towards the United States' constitutional order, legitimizing an entity profoundly hostile to the Rule of the (not only white) People aka "democracy".

    Question to "Republicans": How will your policies in any way strengthen Americans' democracy & enforce their human & civil rights?

    Expected answer: ...

    #RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #GOPIsNotAParty #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #RuleOfThePeople

  24. @KimPerales Right! Spectacularly citing polls downplays the "GOP's" hostility towards the United States' constitutional order, legitimizing an entity profoundly hostile to the Rule of the (not only white) People aka "democracy".

    Question to "Republicans": How will your policies in any way strengthen Americans' democracy & enforce their human & civil rights?

    Expected answer: ...

    #RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #GOPIsNotAParty #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #RuleOfThePeople

  25. @KimPerales Right! Spectacularly citing polls downplays the "GOP's" hostility towards the United States' constitutional order, legitimizing an entity profoundly hostile to the Rule of the (not only white) People aka "democracy".

    Question to "Republicans": How will your policies in any way strengthen Americans' democracy & enforce their human & civil rights?

    Expected answer: ...

    #RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #GOPIsNotAParty #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #RuleOfThePeople

  26. @marcelias Today "GOP" is a lawless, anti-constitutional, anti-democratic & anti-human entity.

    Should any lawless, anti-constitutional, anti-democratic & anti-human entity be eligible to hold public offices under the United States or any of its states & territories?

    No!

    Why? Because the law rules & NOT lawlessness, enemies of the Constitution, U.S. democracy & humanity.

    The evil Nazi Apocalypse was a lesson for the free world, that you must never ever allow enemies of democracy to abuse democracy in order to destroy & remove democracy.

    lawfaremedia.org/article/secti

    #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #14thAmendmentSection2 #14thAmendmentSection3