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When the Law Is Optional, You Have Tyranny Kurt Schlichter
« on: February 23, 2026, 10:39:16 am »
When the Law Is Optional, You Have Tyranny
Kurt Schlichter

How do you have a democracy if you don’t have laws? And how do you have laws if you don’t enforce them? Laws are gifts; we reject law at our peril. One of the most troubling aspects of recent American political discourse is the absolute willingness to simply ignore laws, which is kind of a problem. You see, the basis of democracy is we the people, through our legislature and the guy we elect president, make laws. So democracy is, at its most basic level, the ability to make laws. But if you make a law, and then you don’t enforce it because you choose not to, or you use obnoxious methods like deceit and corrupt judges to prevent its enforcement, then you don’t really have laws. And if you don’t have laws, you don’t have a democracy.

But now, the things we decree through the democratic process have become lawless. The left has absolutely no hesitation in simply ignoring what the people want. Oh, they’ll argue that they’re doing what the people want, but in a democracy, the people manifest what they want through the passage of laws through the Democratic process. What we have today is the neutering of laws through the process of a bunch of leftists getting together and deciding what they want and trying to jam it down our collective throat.

It’s easy to understand the temptation for lawlessness. The best way to deal with an obstacle is to ignore it where possible, and it’s entirely possible when you have a regime media, court system, and an absolutely anti-democratic Democrat Party all angry because they can’t get what they want because the majority of Americans don’t want the same kind of deviant communist race garbage that the left prefers. So, ignoring the law, therefore ignoring democracy, is imperative. They imagine we must to save democracy by burning it down; all that they will do is end up with ashes.

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Re: When the Law Is Optional, You Have Tyranny Kurt Schlichter
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2026, 04:40:23 pm »
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When the Law Is Optional, You Have Tyranny

:yowsa: Absolutely!
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Re: When the Law Is Optional, You Have Tyranny Kurt Schlichter
« Reply #2 on: Today at 08:28:59 am »
:yowsa: Absolutely!
True, because sooner or later a dominant force will take over the niche.

How many times has justice been defined thus: If the Law won't take care of it, it's just us?

Unfortunately, the Star Chamber approach (a democracy) will eventually decay into tyranny.

Which is why we have laws to protect everyone, so long as they are justly written and equally applied (a republic).
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Re: When the Law Is Optional, You Have Tyranny Kurt Schlichter
« Reply #3 on: Today at 08:39:30 am »
Think Minneapolis!  Think LA!
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Re: When the Law Is Optional, You Have Tyranny Kurt Schlichter
« Reply #4 on: Today at 08:49:08 am »
Think Minneapolis!  Think LA!

Think the Federal executive branch under Obama, Trump, Biden and Trump again -- all of whom seem to regard Constitutional restraints on the executive as optional.
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Re: When the Law Is Optional, You Have Tyranny Kurt Schlichter
« Reply #5 on: Today at 09:58:15 am »
Think the Federal executive branch under Obama, Trump, Biden and Trump again -- all of whom seem to regard Constitutional restraints on the executive as optional.

At least that is what the MSM wants you to think.  As far as those presidents, no president has ever gotten the coverage from the MSM like Trump.  No president has ever had the number of lies, manufactured stories, and negative inuendoes like Trump.  I wasn't born until two years after WWII,   so I don't know what the media said about Hitler, but I would guess it was significantly worse than the coverage of Trump.  In those days even democrats and the media were pro-American, unlike today, so Roosevelt probably had plenty of positive coverage.
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Re: When the Law Is Optional, You Have Tyranny Kurt Schlichter
« Reply #6 on: Today at 12:42:29 pm »
At least that is what the MSM wants you to think. 

My judgement that Trump is also participating in the trend that Obama ramped up with his executive-branch rewrite of immigration laws with executive orders that plainly violated the presidential oath of office, and that Biden certainly continued, isn't an impression created by the media, unless you think their reports of ICE agents violating the Fourth Amendment at Trump's behest are actually false. (I like ICE cracking down on illegal immigration, but they should be doing it within the bounds set by the Constitution, which include the limitations place on them by the Fourth and Fifth Amendments -- the latter of which begins "No person...", not "No citizen...".)
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