I have apparently adopted a simple rule when it comes to whose "first amendment rights" I'm going to be bothered to defend. The issue is egalitarian democracy, those who support it and its foundations are worth defending, those whose ideologies, from alleged left to all too real right, oppose and undermine egalitarian democracy are not only not worthy of being defended, it is a danger to egalitarian democracy and morality to give them a defense. The Court has proven itself to be the enemy of egaltarian democracy far more reliably than it has proven to promote egalitarian democracy. Even the Warren Court proved to be total chumps when it came to unintentionally, perhaps, undermining what was needed to protect, defend and promote equality and democracy. There have been none stupider on that count than some of the smartest "liberals" on the court. I would bet no more than two of the sitting "justices" might even be willing to entertain considering that reality of the past half-century.
The only "socialism" that doesn't quickly turn bad is the socialism that holds that those who produce wealth are the rightful owners of the means of that production. I believe in that. All other so-called "socialism" appropriates the word as a false-front for some kind of gangsterism. Marxists are some of the worst of those. I don't ascribe positive meanings to the word, "socialism" anymore because it has been thoroughly trashed by such jerks.
Even many "socialists" of good will are suckered by ill considered collaboration with Marxists and other anti-democratic ideologues.
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