Posted on 12/03/2020 6:59:52 AM PST by Onthebrink
A half-century ago, progressives used to push limitless free expression, blasting conservatives for their allegedly blinkered traditionalism. They boasted of obliterating once-normal boundaries in art, music, and literature to allow nudity, profanity, sexuality, and anti-American boilerplate.
Now?
The left is Victorianâincreasingly puritanical, regressive, and hypersensitive. Even totalitarian censorship and book-burning have weirdly become part of their by-any-means-necessary methods.
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Because they now have the power to control it.
They think that are in the driver’s seat and don’t want any more competing ideas.
Because it was a means to an end, Professor Hansen.
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The globalist narrative demands coerced conformity. It is not consistent with free speech or American freedom.
Because they hate it.................
Because it disagrees with the lies they hold dear.
Truth is again revealed; they have always been thus, even while violently proclaiming otherwise.
Because they are no longer progressives.
They are socialists and thus must conform.
That is what socialism really is, other than communism before the guns.
Socialists must conform: One leader, one goal, one means of achieving the goal, etc.
also their ideas and policies 99% of the time are corrupt and destructive. They can’t have anyone talking about that or providing an alternative. Even political opposition to them is labeled “hate” and should be censored, canceled, doxed and even an excuse for physical harassment and violence.
Exactly. Once communists get control, no dissent, no other views that stray from their dogma is allowed. It is suppressed. Just a matter of time for the iron fist to slam down on us. There’s nothing liberal about these scum.
Somewhere I read this brilliant line:
Pluralism is a way station on the road from one orthodoxy to another.
The left defends THEIR free expression but not OURS.
If they can cheat at the ballot box, they are in the driver’s seat...
"Free Speech is like a bus. You get off when you get to your stop."
Bingo.
Suicide of the West. Erosion and abolition of moral absolutes, ascendency of "power of (man made) law."
Predicted from ancient days, foretold in history.
Old news, Dr. Hanson. Ref: Herbert Marcuse and “repressive tolerance”. KTF
They have never been for progress, nor progressive.
They are compulsively obsessed with oppressing, and they are “blue in the face” when not having some target to oppress.
They invent “causes” for oppressing.
They have a great weight inside them, tying them to their crib, that requires them to control (some, fanatically) everything that is the universe outside their crib and beyond.
SO THAT THEY FEEL SECURE.
Actual aliens from other planets, do not show themselves, because they are stunned to “learn” that aliens also fall under the Crib-al Dictatorship.
In alien-ese: “Progressives actually ‘think’ that we aliens are their subjects!”
Progressives never did, liberals did. Progressives have eaten up liberals and gaslighted them into thinking they’re one in the same.
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