Posted on 05/05/2022 4:42:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
When I graduated from college in the mid-1970s with a degree in speech, theater, and communication, I remember telling a friend that I thought the one thing liberals hated most was free speech.
Now, some 45 years later, we’re all finding out that the Left has gone far beyond just hating free speech to an unabashed hatred of “truth” itself.
Of course, there are some who might say, along with Pontius Pilate, “What is truth?” But that’s the very point of free speech.
The worthwhile and educational idea of debate clubs, popular when I was in high school and college, was that a student or a team of students would take one side of an issue—say, “The First Amendment is essential to true freedom in America”—and another student or group would argue for the opposite idea i.e., that freedom can exist, and even thrive and expand far better without free speech.
If we heard both sides of a propostion, the argument went, we could decide for ourselves which proposal was the better of the two—or even if one was outright destructive.
But, just as those on the Left have ended the debate on global warming, calling it “settled science,” the debate on anything at all is now considered “settled,” and if you even attempt to disagree, you will be canceled and shamed into silence. And eventually, if you continue to persist in challenging the official state narrative, something worse may be coming your way.
It’s not without coincidence that the new Disinformation Governance Board under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security has come into existence just days before the release of the powerful new evidence-soaked film, “2,000 Mules,” produced by the Salem Media Group.
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The left often resorts to using force to make others live in their false reality.
George Orwell predicted this some 70 years ago.
My guess is the Right.
I had several answers to this but in the end I settled on this.
The left hates God.
And when those on the Left stand before that God that they hate so much, they’re going to finally see how utterly, completely, and totally WRONG they were.
And it will be too late.
Some will look through a telescope or microscope and suddenly get chest pain realizing they are looking at the Master’s work.
It happens more than we hear about. I know one at least who concurs.
“...hating free speech to an unabashed hatred of “truth” itself...”
I think that Liberals don’t recognize that a thing called ‘truth’ exists, apart from THEIR wholly situational, personal and party agenda.
THEY will determine what ‘truth’ IS, on any issue or at any given time.
GOD
“The left often resorts to using force to make others live in their false reality.”
Thanks, that just about sums it up. Where they don’t use force, they use character smears and vexatious litigation.
Yep, my tagline reflects it.
Then we have the moderate “reasonable” republicans like Mitt Romney who actually think we can make peace with these mental cases . . . like you can pick up a turd by the clean end . . .
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