Subject: Why democrats should never govern
...straight from the mouth of a sitting Senator and former candidate for Vice President:

https://x.com/RobertG1406/stat...

The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, but come from the Creator... that’s what the Iranian government believes. It’s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Sharia law and targets Sunnis, Bahá’ís, Jews, Christians, and other religious minorities. And they do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their Creator. So, the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.

Tim Kaine said this in committee today during the confirmation hearing of one Riley Barnes, Trump's nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy. What prompted this...history lesson...was this statement by Barnes:

https://www.foreign.senate.gov...

In his first remarks to State Department employees, Secretary Rubio
emphasized that, “We are a nation founded on a powerful principle, and
that powerful principle is that all men are created equal, because our rights
come from God our Creator – not from our laws, not from our
governments.” The Secretary went on to say that we will always be strong
defenders of that principle. And that’s why the Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights, and Labor is important. We are a nation of individuals, each
made in the image of God and possessing an inherent dignity. This is a truth
that our founders understood as essential to American self-government.

And how do we know that the Founders thought that? Because Thomas Jefferson wrote it in literally the preamble of the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Yeesh, Tim Kaine. Way to not understand a damn thing about the nation you theoretically serve in its highest legislative body.