JACKSON: My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time period. I mean, what would you have the government do? I've heard you say a couple of times that the government can post its own speech, but in my hypothetical, "Kids, this is not safe, don't do it," is not going to get it done, so I guess some might say that the government has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country. You seem to be suggesting that that duty cannot manifest itself in the government encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information. So can you help me? Because I’m really worried about that. Because you’ve got the First Amendment operating in an environment of threatening circumstances, from the government’s perspective, and you’re saying that the government can’t interact with the source of those problems.

If you're anything like me, this sets off an entire alarm bell warehouse of alarm bells. Moreover, it highlights a contrast of what Democrats should be doing vs. what they want to do. 

Let's get some things straight. 

The federal government's job isn't necessarily to protect the people, it's to protect the nation and the land therein from foreign threats. This means setting up a strong defense from invasion or sabotage of systems and resources. The protection of the people itself isn't the federal government's job per se. That is up to local authorities. 

This is a job that the federal government has largely abandoned and has utilized its authorities and departments to attack or threaten American citizens. It's taken its mandate to guard our shores and perverted it into believing that it has a right to guard American minds, not American lands.

It's completely abandoned its responsibility to protect our borders and has used the excuse of defending us from foreign powers to censor information that it deems to be foreign misinformation.

What Jackson is effectively saying is that in order to effectively do this job that the government isn't really responsible for in the first place, it has to silence Americans from repeating and distributing information the Democrats label as damaging. 

Streiff put it well in his piece: 

If the entire federal government can't make its voice heard and must rely on suppressing free speech, then it's entirely possible that government doesn't deserve to exist. By the same token, just because the government has something useful to say—and I'll contend that during COVID, federal speech did much more damage to more people than non-government speech—that doesn't imply the government has the right to stomp on other speech.

At this point, the government of the people, for the people, by the people, has become the people's enemy. It is actively working against it while abandoning its basic duties simultaneously. According to Jackson, a Democrat government is not the American government, it's an adversarial force to the people of the United States. 

Not only has it opened up the people for invasion, it is attempting to silence the first right on the board, the right to free speech. 

To repeat Streiff, this is a government that does not deserve to exist. 

To be clear, I'm not advocating for any kind of armed conflict. That would be far more damaging and have more fallout than we could anticipate. What I am suggesting, however, is that we remove the Democrats from power completely, but not stop there either. 

Republicans must undertake the task of disempowering the government in various ways, effectively cementing the people's rights and ultimately, their supremacy. The goal would be to make the federal government's boundaries so airtight that any idea of censorship is indeed hamstrung, to use Jackson's wording. 

The idea is to avoid armed conflict, but it will come to that if the Democrats continue down this road and aren't curtailed. Our rights are untouchable, and Democrats have become so hubristic that they've reached the conclusion that rights come from them. 

If that's the case, then the Democrat Party has become the enemy of the people.