We're often fighting against Democrats to protect our rights. When given a little bit of power, they attempt to implement things like "red flag laws," which are meant to circumvent the 2nd Amendment and deprive a person of the right to own and bear arms. This is actually just one of the ways they attempt to deprive you of your 2A right, and rest assured they'll come up with something else sooner than later. 

Then, of course, there's the issue of repeated attempts to censor the American people, depriving them of their 1st Amendment right to free speech. Since they can't take it from you directly, they'll attempt to do it through third parties like social media websites and search engines. If you don't agree with the Democrats, or disrupt their narrative, they'll try to find a way to shut you down. 

They may even go as far as to punish you for misdemeanors in incredible ways to not just make you scared to practice your rights, but make others watching afraid to do the same. 

(READ: They Can't Take Your Rights, but They Can Make You Afraid to Use Them)

So when I see things like this, I can't help but feel a sense of indignity. The kind you feel when someone lies directly to your face and smirks because they either think you're dumb enough to believe them, or there's nothing you can do about it. 

“Kamala,” by Kadir Nelson, would have been the cover of the November 18, 2024, issue of The New Yorker, had Kamala Harris had won the election. Read about the cover that never was: https://t.co/GlOlEFKmR8 pic.twitter.com/VaQqfPMcSm

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 20, 2025

As my colleague Brad Slager reported, this is the cover the New Yorker would have published if Kamala Harris had won. The picture is pretty self-explanatory. She stands victorious, looking like a thinking person with her finger on her face — a hilarious suggestion in itself — but it's the images in her coat that will get you to feel that aforementioned indignity. 

Featured within it are civil rights leaders such as MLK, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and more. Hilariously, Abraham Lincoln is missing from this lineup, but for some reason Barack Obama and Joe Biden are included among these heroes. 

The idea is that Harris is the culmination of all the work and ideals of freedom fighters and those who believe in equality. 

What an egregious and blatant lie. 

Harris might be the beneficiary of the work many of these great people did, but she's a far cry from a representative of these ideals. She and Biden spent a lot of time demonstrating how much they believe in justice, equality, and civil rights. 

When the words "civil rights" are used, the Democrats automatically believe this revolves around minorities or oppressed groups, but civil rights are for everyone of every race, creed, and class. Stripping or even disrespecting the civil rights of certain groups does not help to make equal ground for everyone else. It just makes you a despot. 

And that's what Biden and Harris were. It's what Harris definitely would have been. A wannabe despot. Who knows how bad things would've gotten if she was allowed to lead this nation. How many more people would've been locked up and for what flimsy reason would it have been done? 

I'm glad we don't have to know. 

But the issue remains. The Democrats still bill themselves as the defender of civil rights and the carriers of a legacy that they champion in talk, but spit on in practice. If society is going to truly step away from the corruption that the Democrats practice, then the perception that they're the part of civil rights has to be destroyed. 

Too many people don't understand the lie. They're wholly sucked into the idea that these are the good guys looking out for the downtrodden, the oppressed, and the underprivileged. 

They're not. They're the force that erodes civil rights.