@justiceLICSW Not gonna touch the capitalism one, but I have to disagree with you about regulating free speech. That's a recipe for people losing their other rights.
Speech is inherently subjective. When the first laws were passed in America outlawing hate speech, do you know who the first person was that they were used against? It was a cop arresting someone for proselytizing, after he called the cop a "damned fascist".
While free speech may be used in ways that are unsavory, it also allows us to speak truth to power in a way that many other countries don't allow (see, for example, blasphemy laws), and underpinned the entire civil rights movement.
If we cede that control to the government, the inherently subjective nature of speech gives bad actors in the government (I'm sure you can think of a few of them) a free license to shut down opposing views, reducing a major point of friction we currently have against a slide into fascism.
Ultimately, the TLDR comes down to: The best answer to bad speech is not trying to shut down the bad speech... It's drowning it out in good speech. Let people hear both sides and make up their own minds.
@LouisIngenthron thank you 💙