They aren't going to support Leftists. There might be a temporary alliance at best but they know leftist aren't actually interested in smaller government, freedom of speech, and private property rights. They know Leftists are equally as authoritarian because of the social control policies implemented during COVID. For example The political hunts connected to the SPLC and FBI/DOJ burned those bridges. They remember how Leftists treat them when they work against them. Therefore your attempt to use their principles against them aren't going to work very well.

> They know Leftists are equally as authoritarian because of the social control policies implemented during COVID.

The actual restrictions were quite reasonable in the vast majority of cases, weren't in place very long, and were only spottily enforced.

Sorry you missed a couple nights at Applebees.

> The actual restrictions were quite reasonable in the vast majority of cases, weren't in place very long, and were only spottily enforced.

It's ok to think they were reasonable or unreasonable, and which side you fall on seems like it'd largely be determined by personal circumstances and lifestyle.

> Sorry you missed a couple nights at Applebees.

This kind of rhetoric gives off a deplorable sort of pompous vibe. While it's probably untrue to say that both sides are equally authoritarian, it would also be untrue to suggest one side isn't at all. Both COVID and the response to it caused a tremendous of damage for some and created ridiculous amounts of wealth and almost no damage for others.

99% of covid restriction whining on the internet is exactly that, whining. And tends to be very revisionist about what actually happened, what actually was restricted, and what actually was enforced.

I reject your slightly modified false equivalency.

> Leftists are equally as authoritarian because of the social control policies implemented during COVID

In the western world how many of these COVID controls remain in place as of today?

Literally none of them, but it won't matter to the "both sides" types or the right wingers because it's about their feelings not about the facts of what actually happened during COVID or how many people the TEMPORARY restrictions saved.

Yes! I lost my entire career because I wouldn't participate in the Covid production. Dems will cheer on surveillance tech embedded with law enforcement when they view the target as their political opponents.

Give me a break. Dems weren't throwing people in foreign torture prisons for not wearing a mask at the grocery store. Or throwing them in internment camps and stripping them of their citizenship for simply expressing an opinion.

In one poll a majority of Democrats supported indefinite house arrest for anyone who didn't take the vaccine, and 45% supported confining the unvaccinated to "designated facilities" (prison camps). 47% supported the use of government tracking systems for the unvaccinated.

https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_bb2352aa-7d...

Ya this is the big lie 2Aers are bought into, turns out being able to organize is as important or more than just having a bunch of guns and a ooh-rah attitude. And as you can see from article the government will be there if you start acting in a way the admin disapprove of

They're the ones treading on other people.

Apparently the full expression is "Don't Tread On Me, But Feel Free To Tread On Those With Whom I Disagree"

They don't want to be trod upon, they want to tread on everyone else.

They're too busy re-enacting the "Clown Applying Makeup" meme, to achieve a proper mar-a-lago face.

They watch the TV network that tells them every single day that huge numbers of illegal immigrants (or other scary brown-skinned people) are the reason for all their troubles & fears. They always hype the false story that there is a huge caravan of migrants approaching US borders but only during lead-up to elections.

Trump is persecuting the same "others" that the "don't tread on me" group also hate. They only wave their weapons when Democrats are sitting in the White House.

The Trump administration is doing exactly what he was democratically voted in to do by the "Don't Tread on Me people": close the border and deport illegal immigrants.

Leftists really played themselves with decades of disarmament rhetoric.

Always amusing to see this saying on _license plates_ of all places. Idk if a snake can look pathetic, but I always read them with a "please, mister," in front of them.

This is the opposite of "such cases." The Trump administration is doing exactly what he was democratically voted in to do by the "Don't Tread on Me people": close the border and deport illegal immigrants.

That's not relevant to him spying on political enemies.

Thanks Obama! That's not relevant to him doing what he was democratically elected to do.