On the Fourth of July

We are at a very dangerous moment, and I want to address this. Because leaders in the federal government are not even a little coded. They want an ethnic cleansing of the country. And I will bring some receipts, because the posts are connected to this as well, Patriot Front marching openly in DC. I am using the Patriot Front post photo as well. Ignore this, and this will get worse. And the Paradox of Tolerance comes to mind. First, what Patriot Front stands for:

WTOP Journalist, Mitchell Miller on X:

A group of masked men gathered at Union Station today and called for reclaiming the country and getting rid of immigrants. Some held Confederate flags. They have been marching across Capitol Hill.

📎 Mitchell Miller

Now, we have been in this moment before, and open societies are always at risk. But theirs is protected speech! Even if I find the ideas repellent! This is what Karl Popper had to write about this subject at the end of the Second World War:

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always…