The Rising Cost of Dissent in America Miles Taylor TED TED

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Former senior US national security official Miles Taylor shares a personal account that raises a broader civic concern: the growing cost of dissent in American public life. Drawing on his experience inside government and living the consequences of speaking openly, he says that the real threat to US democracy isn't the politicians or hard-liners — it's the two-thirds of Americans who don’t speak up. (This talk contains mature language.) (Recorded at TEDxMidAtlantic on November 1, 2025)

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1. The obscenely repugnant nature...

... of these dregs of society who leave threatening messages because someone disagrees with – c'mon, people, without question, hands down and going away, the worst president in our nation's history – are the REAL traitors. But they are also cowards of the lowest order. Even the stupidest of them know that what they're doing is illegal and immoral. Ah, but Trump has validated their bigotry, so it's okay for them to do what they believe – what they KNOW – he wants them to do: Attack anyone with the temerity to challenge his authoritarian disregard for the rule of law and, even worse, common human decency, of which they have NONE whatsoever.
Fuck 'em with a fencepost sideways.