[tet68]

Wow! Hitchens lays it out.

This is often dismissed, half-jokingly, with the casual phrase 'political correctness'. But this imported expression does not even begin to encompass the power and danger of the thing. The new empire of ideas reaches into the most intimate areas of life, and those who do not accept it are judged to be personally at fault, not simply politically or philosophically wrong. Unmitigated by any lingering attempt to loathe the sin rather than the sinner, unshakeable in its certainty that personal righteousness is reserved for those who share its views about South Africa, landmines and the homeless, it is the most intolerant system of thought to dominate the British Isles since the Reformation.

It's what we face here too.

[texasbluebell]

"I am a modern man. I am part of the rock and roll generation—the Beatles, colour TV, that's the generation I come from." -- Tony Blair

Indeed.

Tony Blair in his days as singer with the band Ugly Rumours