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Weren’t Democrats Once the Champions of Free Speech?
American Thinker ^ | 17 Sep, 2024 | Brian C. Joondeph

Posted on 09/17/2024 5:09:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Now they brand anyone who questions election results an 'election denier' and for some, it gets worse.

Democrats were once the party of free speech.

The ACLU and “truth to power” were part of the Democrat party truth brigade. Yet now Democrats and the left are stifling free speech so fast it would make George Orwell’s head spin.

If Orwell was alive today, his sequel to 1984 would be 2024, replacing Winston Smith with Elon Musk or Telegram CEO Pavel Durov.

Censorship, once popular in communist China, Hitler’s Germany, and Mao’s China, is the new Converse sneakers, mom jeans, and cardigans, popular decades ago and now making a comeback.

Brazil and the U.K. are leading the censorship charge, with the U.S.A. close behind.

Speech is now free only if it is the right speech, politically correct, and not critical of the ruling class or its policies. Let’s make Orwell’s Oceana and Big Brother great again.

Aside from challenging the “safe and effective” COVID vaccine mantra, election integrity is another hot area of censorship. Challenge the ruling class and be castigated as a vaccine or election “denier.”

Physicians lost their jobs, licenses, board certifications, and reputations for having the audacity to question or challenge the government narrative regarding COVID. Daring to question election integrity leads to the same scorn from the smart set in Washington D.C. and the media, leading to disbarment or worse.

There is a website dedicated to these evil election deniers called electiondeniers.org. This is a project of States United Action, a nonprofit “democracy center” that apparently believe in a situational and conditional First Amendment.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: democrats; dissent; freespeech; leftism
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To: MtnClimber

They are not liberals. They are not ‘classical’ liberals.

They are LEFTISTS. When does the left go too far?

To them...THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS, BY ANY MEANS NECCESSARY. They would kill, imprison, spit on, etc., to anyone they don’t like. They are savages with an inner tyrant bursting to get loose.


21 posted on 09/17/2024 7:29:54 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: fuzzylogic

To be fair, Voltaire, a “classical” liberal, advocated for much of the same crap the left does today, including faking being a defender of free speech only to then turn around and deny it to his enemies when he has the cards, like he did with the Jesuit Order, so I’d argue leftists and classical liberals are one and the same ultimately. At least, the French wing of classical liberals are one and the same with the left. Not surprising, since the left originated with the French Revolution, which was Voltaire’s handiwork alongside Diderot, Sade, and Rousseau.


22 posted on 09/17/2024 7:44:00 AM PDT by otness_e
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To: MtnClimber

Weren’t Democrats Once the Champions of Free Speech?

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Yes, and they still are, as long as you agree with them. All other speech is disinformation, misinformation or propaganda.


23 posted on 09/17/2024 7:44:10 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: MtnClimber
Well, they said they were ... just like Democrat/Communists say they're "saving democracy". All lies ... nothing but lies ... but, then again, they are democrat/communists.
24 posted on 09/17/2024 7:46:05 AM PDT by glennaro (2024: The Year of The Reckoning, lest our Republic succumb to the "progressive" disease of the Left)
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To: MtnClimber

No. Never have been and never will be.


25 posted on 09/17/2024 11:13:00 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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