Anyone who "yeah buts" the First Amendment is truly clueless.
Cardin understands the First Amendment only too well.
He wants to prohibit the "truth" because it is damaging to him and his party.
That's right, but most people have never actually read it or any of the Constitution for that matter. Instead, they rely on what they've been told—they have Constitutional rights leading them to say things like, "My First Amendment right to free speech..." and "Under the First Amendment, I have the right to free speech..."
No question this has been done deliberately to convince people that their rights come from the Constitution which makes it easy to take them away. To combat this, I came up with a short true-false question to wake people up.
True or False: The First Amendment grants us the right to free speech.Most people quickly answer true, though the smarter ones recognize there might be iocaine powder in that question because of how easy it seems. They will waver a bit, but then reluctantly say true. When I counter, "False!" they all protest to which I say, "LIU. Look it up." Some do and now see it, others do and ask what's the difference. Either way, there's hope for them because they actually read it or at least asked about it. The ones who don't remain in ignorance. Not much you can do there.