Posted on 02/06/2021 4:34:19 AM PST by Kaslin
Why does the left want to silence conservatives? Why do rank-and-file Democrats go along with this abomination? Leftists have bad intentions, but how about the Democrats who enable them? I prefer to think they're being manipulated.
As worried as we should be about the hyperexploding national debt and our inevitable fiscal catastrophe, I am even more worried about the left's success in turning America into a police state (ironic, given its simultaneous war on the police).
People still able to summon their rational faculties during this pandemic have to be concerned about this insane, concerted effort to control people's thoughts and speech. How can those who purport to rage against the fascism of former President Donald Trump, which was an abject Democratic and media myth, promote actual fascism in our culture?
It strains the mind to imagine that fair people can deceive themselves into believing that silencing and canceling people for "offensive" views is consistent with our liberty tradition. Some rationalize that because government is not the moving agency in this censorship, and because the Constitution only restricts state action, not that of private entities, there is no violation of our constitutional principles.
They can lie or fool themselves, but don't let them fool you. Let's not pretend that this consortium of overblown, unaccountable digital oligarchs does not represent an equal threat to our speech. If you can live with censorship by these immensely powerful companies, then you don't believe in the spirit of constitutional liberties. They are just nice-sounding platitudes -- a means to justify their end of gaining control over the people.
The left has been quite strategic in its sinister plans to silence and control conservatives. If it could sufficiently demonize us, it could emasculate us as effective opponents of its agenda.
Leftists have laid the groundwork for decades, along with their other extremist ideas they are now peddling as mainstream. They've persistently hammered the narrative that conservative speech is inherently hateful and inciteful, leading people to violent behavior. They've framed mainstream conservative ideas and speech as racist, bigoted, homophobic, devoid of compassion and hateful.
Some conservatives naively claim the left has so overdone the race slander that it has lost its effectiveness and no longer warrants a response. How can people be so oblivious? The smear is more powerful and malleable than ever. Leftists have exploited it to drive their open-borders policy -- essentially arguing that America is the first nation in the history of the world that doesn't have a right to control its own borders and pretending it could survive if it were to give up that control.
They're using it to advance socialism, arguing that our "racist" past requires us to scrap the founding principle of equality of opportunity and replace it with "equity," a euphemism that means guaranteed equality of outcomes. Equality under the law and equality of opportunity mean nothing anymore, nor does justice, whose meaning has likewise been perverted in service to the leftist cause. Justice is now social justice, which also means cashiering principles of equality in favor of forcing equal outcomes. "White privilege," critical race theory and "systemic racism" are part of the same mix. The racism smear has even found its way into climate change and pandemic politics. It's embarrassing how mind-numbed we've become.
In order to credibly argue that we need a fundamental reordering of our constitutional and judicial systems, leftists must show that America is irredeemably drenched in the sin of racism and can only expatiate itself through the atonement of socialism, reparations, guaranteed universal income, outright wealth redistribution and the rest.
This is why I keep saying the endless vendetta against Donald Trump is not primarily about Donald Trump. He is a convenient scapegoat to taint the entire conservative movement. If they can succeed with their preposterous claim that the 74 million Trump supporters were accessories before the fact to the few hundred or so people who stormed the Capitol, then they've made a prima facie case that conservative ideas -- and conservative speech -- are intrinsically hateful and dangerous. What's the big deal, after all, of silencing "domestic terrorists"?
It's hard to say I'm exaggerating, when we a movement to destroy NFL icon Tom Brady because he won't denounce Trump is commonplace. Disgracefully, this censorship crusade is being pushed by the very people who have a particular duty to safeguard free speech, i.e., the mainstream media. Did you see that CNN's Brian Stelter -- the network's ostensible media watchdog, no less -- is freely claiming that cable providers should drop Fox News? Stelter has the audacity to assert that this isn't about freedom of speech but "freedom of reach." So, the adaptable left is employing yet another euphemistic sleight of hand to marshal the private sector to shut down its political opposition.
What are these leftists afraid of? The fact that Stelter -- and he's just one of many -- even wants to chill our speech, whether through public sector or private sector means, is, well, chilling.
I am willing to give many grassroots Democrats the benefit of the doubt in assuming they don't believe that their movers and shakers and digital and media consorts are trying to force uniformity of thought by silencing conservatives. But if present trends continue, they'll have no reasonable grounds to deny the obvious. I would prefer to think that most Biden supporters would oppose using the awesome powers of digital media, mainstream media, government, academia, cultural shame and other methods to shut down conservatives, but only time will tell -- a very short time.
They are all in this web created by the globalists to manipulate their every move.......or else! we will reviel you sexual deviance, harm your children, destroy your career, bankrupt you. This house has to be burned to the ground
By giving grassroots Dems the benefit of the doubt, David Limbaugh is being naive, at best. Why do millions of individual Dems vote consistently in lockstep for Dem politicians election after election in near perpetuity? There is only one answer. It’s because they are of a socialist/communist bent even if they do not fully grasp what that means.
The Red-Blue ping-pong is click-bait. Its “them” vs “Us”
What we all aren’t supposed to focus on the selling of American Congressional Legislation. The primary industry in DC. THE issue that binds Red and Blue together in the UniParty is the issue of electoral fraud.
Its why certain precincts have voted Red or Blue for over 100 years. Its the means by which Congress and K St lobbyists can guarantee “product delivery” to interests that pay enough.
Various “intelligence agencies” are the enforcement arm. Prolly different ones (there are 17 of them afterall!) supporting different “service lines”
Its mutually assured destruction if either side starts to betray the long-standing inter-generational process.
Whenever the issue starts to bubble too close to the surface
we all start getting entertained with “pizza parties” and “SRA” issues-and other Red-Blue “trigger issues” intended to distract us-but these are only incidental to the business at hand-the selling of the votes and legislation of the most powerful legislative body in the world.
The “trigger issues” are intended to remove our eyes from what is going on right before our very eyes!
The contemporary information-digital communications technology has the ability to put an end to all of this -which is why the “information war” on the American electorate. Why “us” versus “them” is finally crystalizing.
Its why they barricaded Capitol Hill
Written over an entrance to the DOJ in DC.
“Repression Breeds Violence”
They should ponder this thought carrfully.
Silencing conservatives was easy for them before the internet. Now they just have to ban people for being conservative which is supposedly against the law but nobody in the republican party of Congress is going to do a thing about it. Oh, maybe hold more hearings which lead to nothing changing.
Huh? They're one in the same. And, they think they're merely at war with conservatives. They are at war with God. And they're going to lose.
The worst ones are the Republicans who are working with the Democrats to silence US.
No Liberal ever saw a conspiracy theory they didn’t fall in love with
It strains the mind to imagine that fair people can deceive themselves into believing that silencing and canceling people for “offensive” views is consistent with our liberty tradition.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Our nation has forgotten the sacrifices of our founders, and their attitude:
Samuel Adams, Philadelphia State House, Aug 1st, 1776
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. “
They cannot censor me. I speak out to people “offline”, you know the way we used to, before social media. At the supermarket, at the tool and supply store, on the street. You can start a conversation anywhere and educate people. Sometimes, you will get the reaction, “I did not know that”. You have a real voice, use it.
Mitt Romney is the one I immediately thought of. Reckon he figures the commies will gain total control and he wants to be on the winning side.
Mitt, oh Mitt... even the leftists won't embrace a turncoat.
The media companies are all ok with this unless it happens to them.
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