This is being touted as a shock poll, but I’m not sure it’s that shocking. We already know how the left feels about the entire Constitution, including of course the Bill of Rights, but the right is also pretty fed up with a lot of what is being touted as “First Amendment rights” like burning the American flag, defacing our national monuments with things like ACAB and Hamas is Here. Vandalism is not “the right to assemble,” nor is it “freedom of speech,” except when it is.
More than half of Americans believe the First Amendment can go too far in the rights it guarantees, according to a new survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a First Amendment–focused nonprofit.The survey, released on Thursday, asked 1,000 American adults a range of questions about the First Amendment, free speech, and the security of those rights. Fifty-three percent of respondents agreed with the statement “The First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees” to at least some degree, with 28 percent reporting that it “mostly” or “completely” describes their thoughts.Americans were further divided along partisan lines. Over 60 percent of Democrats thought the First Amendment could go too far, compared to 52 percent of Republicans.”Evidently, one out of every two Americans wishes they had fewer civil liberties,” Sean Stevens, FIRE’s chief research adviser, said on Thursday. “Many of them reject the right to assemble, to have a free press, and to petition the government. This is a dictator’s fantasy.”
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