What's behind the leftist urge to censor?

Ideas matter. Freedom matters. Communication matters. Tolerance matters. Scrutiny matters. History matters. Truth matters. Those are the values promoted by free speech, free assembly and free expression; the ones that made America a haven for intellectual freedom.

Those who argue for censorship — whether it be to protect institutional authority, quell resistance to tyrannical policies or simply to avoid triggering the politically unhinged — do so because they fear the compelling nature of the adversarial point of view. Bad ideas can be discredited with good information and sound logic. Therefore, they need insulation from that which can dismantle them. Good ideas need no such protection. In the absence of censorship and deceit, they routinely prevail in the arena of debate.

Ask yourself the following: Have you noticed either the mainstream media or government officials waving red flags over the inevitable consequences that will result from millions of illegal aliens flooding our southern border? Have you heard either of them sound the alarm that our children are at a greater risk of serious illness and death from the COVID vaccine than the virus itself?

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.

The value of truth is in freefall. Words and concepts are being obscured into meaninglessness. Objective analysis has given way to a tunnel-vision focus on validation for preconceptions or, even worse, systematic deception designed to centralize power and control. Basic understandings are twisted and contorted into a new math where fantasy + indoctrination = the inability to critically think.

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.

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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."

“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

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