Paid Protester (NoKings XXX)
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NoKings XXX
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The "paid protester" claim is one of the oldest tricks in the authoritarian playbook — and it has been debunked every single time it's been used. The paid protester claim exists for one reason: if the protests are organic, they're legitimate. If they're paid, they can be dismissed and crushed. When the government can't answer the moral argument, it attacks the people making it.
The Founding Fathers established a democratic republic founded on individual liberty, separation of powers, and freedom from tyranny — a government deriving its authority from the consent of the people, not from kings or concentrated wealth.