Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) chastised and slandered “GOP
members” who decline to abide by the Capitol mask mandate, saying they
willfully endangered others’ health and comparing them to the January 6
“insurrectionists.”
Referring
to an incident in which Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) allegedly told Rep. Joyce Beatty
(D-OH) to “kiss my ass” after she requested he wear a face mask while on an
underground subway that carries congressmen from their offices to the Capitol,
Jayapal said: “That
should not be a problem in the United States Congress. I really believe that
our colleagues who refuse to even adhere to the basic norms of civility are undermining our democracy, and of course we’re seeing it
in all kinds of even more serious ways like the Jan. 6 insurrection is just
part of that and part of the attempt to take down a legitimate democracy from
functioning in the way it should."
Yes,
those of us who have the audacity to walk around unmasked—barefaced!—are doing
so in a deliberate attempt to “undermine our democracy,” or at least keep it
from “functioning in the way it should.” We are insurrectionists-- terrorists
really.
Because, when someone
refuses to reflexively comply with an authoritarian government’s demands, that
someone is obviously anti-democratic. Probably a fascist. Right?
In truth, every Democrat
screaming that we are “going to lose our democracy” if Republicans/conservatives
have their way…is actually…helping us to lose our democracy. Fighting federal
mandates, authoritarianism, and tyranny is the only way we can keep “our
democracy.”
Acquiescing to them will destroy it.
Note
to Rep. Jayapal and Rep. Joyce: taking away peoples’ personal freedoms is not a
hallmark of democratic government. Tyranny does not equal democracy.
But
you are free to keep wearing your masks. Even as you kiss
my ass.
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