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Where is the outrage from the Left? The left has shown the public who they are. after 8 years of slamming Bush we now see they are undeniable hypocrites. Now they have looked in the mirror and see They are authoritarian fear mongorers.
Many liberals see this as his attempt at compromise. Something the right wing seems to know nothing about.
Where is the outrage from the Left? The left has shown the public who they are. after 8 years of slamming Bush we now see they are undeniable hypocrites. Now they have looked in the mirror and see They are authoritarian fear mongorers.
They are silent for same reason they are silent on the $6 trillion in new debt, and the level of poverty under this president, they are politically partisan hacks.
Biden himself draws parallels between his 1995 bill and its 2001 cousin. "I drafted a terrorism bill after the Oklahoma City bombing. And the bill John ******** sent up was my bill," he said when the Patriot Act was being debated
I would certainly agree that the parties take turns bashing each other on civil liberties, with usually the party out of power 'shocked, shocked' that the party in power is trampling liberties. But the Patriot Act can hardly be cited as a feather in Dem's hat when it comes to civil liberties.
Many of us Canadian liberals consider even the most left of Americans to be just another brand of RWNJ. There is and has been a long long history of attacks on freedom by American governments of all stripes.
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