>Governor Newsom in California is proposing a constitutional amendment that radically limits the absolutism of the Second Amendment. Governor Newsom ought to c

>Governor Newsom in California is proposing a constitutional amendment that radically limits the absolutism of the Second Amendment. Governor Newsom ought to consider the removal of planks from his own eye, ere looking to remove the splinters from other's eyes. >It's high time we do the same for the First Amendment -- specifically a money-is-not-speech amendment and an amendment criminalizing hate speech. Who gets to make the decision as to what speech is which? > Free speech absolutism got us Kiwi Farms, Gamergate, and Trump Those are all meh, with but a few moments of hilarity; but as Free Speech also gave us the collected works of Monty Python && all of Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy's comedy albums, I must reject Spavined Gruesome's attempts at meddling with the 1st. >One nice side effect of these amendments is the Republican Party may well shrivel up and disappear The party apparatus may or may not disappear, the people who hold their nose and vote (R) will still exist... >One of the things the Germans realized is that if you want to enjoy a functioning democracy, you must silence people who hold antidemocratic views well before they become too powerful to be stopped. Democracy is when the majority is only allowed to have the Right Opinions. >Accordingly you face criminal charges in Germany for spreading Nazi propaganda. The occupying governments ...outlawed the iconography of the previous regime? Totally endogenous, I'm sure. The german state is threatened more by the numerous unreconstructed GDR Stalinists in its political and administrative circles than by skinhead knuckleheads in SS drag mincing about in the streets. >Most of the freest, most democratic nations in the world are like this. Why isn't the USA? This would have a long answer, but to simplify: Voltaire, Madison, Roger Williams > Karl Popper >Hint: the USA is not a democracy. Thank goodness. The people who wrote the Constitution knew what eventually happens to those...