What's behind the leftist urge to censor?

American Thinker ^ | 24 Sep, 2022 | Jim Cardoza

[P.O.E.]

True. That’s why America was the exception to history. Sad to see myself saying “was”.

[jughandle]

Maybe I’m grasping but the fact they get so triggered by common sense and morality kinda tells me they do still know right and wrong but just don’t want to be seen with it.

[GOPJ]

Everything that works for a free society is toxic in a totalitarian hellhole.

That’s how we know the left’s gone totalitarian.

[Vaduz]

What’s behind the leftist urge to censor?

One word Marxism

[Vision]

What's behind it? It's a core strategy they live by.

The Left’s Core Strategy #1: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." (via Rules for Radicals)

The Left’s Core Strategy #2: Scream accusations of racism(or racist attacks) at anything you don't like or which slows your agenda.

The Left’s Core Strategy #3: Intensely attack Republicans for actions you are undertaking.

The Left’s Core Strategy #4: Attack Republicans as stupid, but do not discuss it further.

The Left’s Core Strategy #5: When all else fails, censor speech and if needed deploy violence.

Repeat

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

MtnClimber :" If not, it is because those once-trusted entities have become so politicized and partisan that they will not allow anything — including the truth
— to harm the narrative they so desperately seek to advance. When dealing with inconvenient realities, they seem to have two choices only: to censor or ignore. "

Another choice other than censor, or ignore, for them is to surveil opposing views.
From recent communication from a friend about "iCOP":
"The U.S. Postal Service monitored protesters across the country, snooping on Americans focused on issues involving guns and President Biden’s election, according to records obtained by The Washington Times.
Postal inspectors tracked the actions of gun rights activists gathering in Richmond, Virginia; people preparing to demonstrate against police in Louisville,
Kentucky, after an investigation into the police shooting of Breonna Taylor;
and far-right groups headed to the District of Columbia after Mr. Biden’s election."

"Cato Institute senior fellow Patrick Eddington obtained the heavily redacted records detailing the postal inspectors’ spying from September 2020 through April 2021,
including through covert social media surveillance called the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP). (Emphasis mine)
The records provide a rare glimpse into the breadth and depth of the Postal Service’s surveillance apparatus,
which Mr. Eddington said was capable of reaching into every home and business in the country."
“The Postal Service cannot reliably deliver mail to my own home, yet they can find the money and people to effectively digitally spy at scale,
including on Americans engaged in First Amendment-protected activities,” Mr. Eddington said."

[cowboyusa]

Satan

[SuperLuminal]

Jim Cardoza is a pathetic moron...
Where has he been hiding for the past 70 years...

[GingisK]

Consensus by censorship.

[minnesota_bound]

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear.
They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home — all the more powerful because forbidden — terrify them.
A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

WINSTON CHURCHILL

[dfwgator]

Nobody had a way with words like Churchill did.