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by __alexs 1256 days ago
Whatever happened to the "don't tread on me" side of the right? Can we get those guys back?
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Maybe if you accept their freedom to prejudice and discriminate.
They are there, but, as posted by others here, mostly care about gun ownership and covid restrictions and their own speech, but not about people getting literally tread on by police or humane treatment of asylum seekers, etc.
You should have thought of that when you banned them all for saying that the sky is blue and water is wet.

The "Don't tread on me" side of the population - I don't think "the right" is the correct term here - tends to be want left alone by overreaching governmental busybodies. They also tend to be more on the traditional side of societal norms - again not something which is limited to "the right", there are plenty of traditional left-wing thinkers who did not like the "free love" movement of the 60's and don't like it still - so are not wont to go for polyamory unless they happen to be Mormons and talk about polygyny.

I'm not sure you answered my question but thanks for the background.