You linked a Senate Bill that, as far as I can tell, never became law. It looks like similar bills were issued in 2020 and 2021 and also failed to pass.
And this is even before we attempt to tease apart why you think that conservatives would be confused with White supremacists.
False equivalence between BLM and Republicans. They aren’t two sides of the same coin.
Further, BLM activists don’t blow up federal buildings (and nurseries) or bring zip-ties and gallows to their riots trying to overthrow the government. You sound silly.
> "White supremacist has now become a label for a larger and larger group of republicans/white cisgender traditional-valued people. "
White supremacist beliefs aren't even illegal in the US (whether or not they should be), so the idea that the label of white supremacist itself absent of any other crime is somehow being used to legally prosecute people who are guilty of nothing more than "traditional beliefs" or "being Republican" is quite a stretch.
Not as much of a stretch as placing white supremacists and BLM as category-similar examples, though.
> In the legislation above: "White supremacists and other far-right-wing extremists are the most significant domestic terrorism threat facing the United States."
This isn't just something the legislators made up, it's a factually true statement.
From the CSIS[1]:
> Far-right terrorism has significantly outpaced terrorism from other types of perpetrators, including from far-left networks and individuals inspired by the Islamic State and al-Qaeda. Right-wing attacks and plots account for the majority of all terrorist incidents in the United States since 1994, and the total number of right-wing attacks and plots has grown significantly during the past six years. Right-wing extremists perpetrated two thirds of the attacks and plots in the United States in 2019 and over 90 percent between January 1 and May 8, 2020.
Oh man, forget about white supremacists, antifa and the rest of the fun-house gang, could you imagine if the state departments individually labelled every single US citizen as a potential domestic terrorist, to pre-emptively justify deploying whatever surveillance and psyops they wanted? There's something deeply comical to me about the notion. That seems more or less like the fear that justified the PRISM priapism anyways.
You don't know how big this goes. It started with 9/11 and eventually gave the president unlimited power to use all forms of necessary and appropriate force against all forms of aggression. This includes using agencies to spy on their own people.
Right after the 9/11 terrorist attack, overwhelmed by mourning, congress gave the executive branch broad powers related to terrorism that still exists to this day. That power is scoped in a 60 word document voted on by congress.
That document effects how the government operates to this very day.
There was one person in that podcast who saw the future for what it was before anyone else. She made a stand and risked her entire career to stop what was to come. Ultimately she failed and that's why we are where we are today.
