@heidilifeldman Democracies must be empowered to defend against their enemies, who know exactly, how to purposefully abuse democracy in order to destroy it.

"When democracy granted democratic methods for us in the times of opposition, this was bound to happen in a democratic system. However, we National Socialists never asserted that we represented a democratic point of view, but we have declared openly that we used democratic methods only in order to gain the power and that, after assuming the power, we would deny to our adversaries without any consideration the means which were granted to us in the times of opposition."
β€” Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda minister, who committed suicide with his wife, who also murdered their 6 children, when their 1000-year Reich ceased to exist after 12 genocidal years β€”

Allowing anti-democratic individuals & organizations to run for public office(s) never pays β€” except maybe for the enemies of democracy.

#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #Democracy #BanAntidemocrats #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #SlowMotionOverthrow