Kamala and Walz: Censorship Crusaders Destroying Free Speech and Innovation

Flopping Aces ^ | 10-12-24 | Paul Ingrassia

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Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have made a penchant for chastising “hate speech” and “misinformation” on the campaign trail this election season.  While those words might not seem like much to those less familiar with how our constitutional form of government, and specifically the First Amendment, is supposed to work, they are offensive to those of us who understand a thing or two about the Constitution – particularly, the notable omission of a so-called “hate speech” clause.

In truth, liberals like Kamala and Walz are merely playing with words (and not particularly well) doing their best to not tell people what they truly believe.  However, Kamala and Walz are so incompetent that it should be plainly obvious to any attentive listener of what they mean by “hate speech”: they abhor – and, insidiously, think should be unlawful –any criticism personally directed at them or their woke policies.  Kamala’s leftist ideology thrives in the dark; it cannot sustain under the piercing bright light of truth.  That is why the Left – and the Democratic Party – is hellbent on silencing their critics, especially Donald Trump, by any means necessary.  The old adage is that when the ballot fails, the bullet becomes the last option.  So far, the Left has managed to rig a presidential election and install a dummy president, as well as twice attempt to kill Donald Trump. And yet, despite the titanic forces of opposition against him, is as of this writing now leading in every single one of the seven key battleground states on Real Clear Politics (he only needs to win 3 or 4 to take the electoral college).

The problem with establishing artificial barriers on speech – devised not out of reason, but emotion – is that it limits the great possibilities for a nation, economically, culturally, and technologically, stymying progress and setting the country back decades, if not centuries.  “The closing of the American mind” is a real and present danger, and it is readily manifested in the policies and persona of Kamala Harris, who, in addition to being a diehard liberal, certainly lacks the mental powers to fathom the ideas that spawned the great innovations of our country’s past and are required to – in a phrase – “build back better.”  Part of this has to do with the decades-long assault on speech, which only appeases the dregs of society, who lack the reasoning faculties to contribute anything of substance.  By pandering to the lowest common denominator (which is the only advantage of regulating free speech at all in modern societies), it allows those less intellectually and naturally gifted to receive an artificial leg up, because on an otherwise level platform, they would easily be stampeded by their natural superiors.

But the downside of this, particularly over an extended period of time, is that all of society ossifies – we become paralyzed in this constant and false belief to cater to those who contribute, relatively speaking, nothing meaningful to the collective good.  In turn, those who are the most gifted – the innovators, creative geniuses, and visionary statesmen – are forced into playing along with this ridiculous charade.  Liberal riffraff manipulate mass opinion, and particularly Christian sentimentality, by exploiting feelings of guilt or self-righteous envy, admonishing those who do not invest everything in their causes (i.e., BLM, LGBTQ+) in the vilest of terms – racist, bigot, xenophobe, homophobe.  The more gullible of the productive group are duped into believing their pandering is moral or virtuous, when in fact it simply is accommodating to the malignant dictates of communists, spiritual if not actual, who should be spurned wholesale for the cancerous blight they thrust onto the rest of us.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century – the period leftist historians have labeled “gilded” even though it was truly a golden age in American industrial and cultural prolificity– the mentality of “survival of the fittest,” not “diversity, equity, and inclusion” was the rule of the day.  This led to untold innovation, from the transcontinental railroad to the Empire State Building, springing all sorts of titans of industry whose names – Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carnegie – remain with us, in all their larger-than-life grandeur, to this very day.  Though latter day historians would have later generations believe this was a most cruel and inhumane age, the factual record begs to differ: it was an age of unparalleled philanthropy.  It was an age of grand investments – reflecting a grand confidence – in America’s grand potential.  The Chicago World’s Fair held in 1933, as but one example, showcased America at its cultural apotheosis – the culmination of centuries of Western scientific and artistic achievement that catapulted both United States and world into the future.

Unfortunately, world war came, and subsequently periods of civil unrest and cultural and moral rot.  These events set back the mighty optimism of the early part of the twentieth century by decades, if not permanently.  Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are the atrophied, latter-day expressions of the terminal decline that has steadily taken hold of the American imagination, paralyzing its once robust and nonpareil powers of creativity to a screeching (emphasis on “screech”) halt.  Donald Trump and Elon Musk, as the antitheses of that degenerative ideology, represent what America can be again – unshackled (unburdened?) by the Marxist tendencies, now incubated all throughout virtually every institution in American society today.

What was responsible for the grand innovations of America’s past (and with Trump, has the makings of a Second American Renaissance in the twenty-first century) was the Constitution, perhaps the greatest achievement in Western history.  The Constitution’s sweeping allowances on speech, assembly, and religious freedom – fortified by a robust and incontrovertible right to bear arms – were not simply enigmatic pet passions of a small group of elite men living in the Eighteenth Century, they were — are — the necessary building blocks of civilization itself.  The results speak for themselves: after being put into practice for nearly two and a half centuries, these building blocks produced more innovation compressed within that compact period of time than any other era in human history.

The foreigner has always been envious of American civilization (this is why the illegal alien is Kamala’s most coveted constituent), because America represented heights that no other people in history were able to achieve on their own. 

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.......The problem with establishing artificial barriers on speech – devised not out of reason, but emotion – is that it limits the great possibilities for a nation, economically, culturally, and technologically, stymying progress and setting the country back decades, if not centuries.......

Yeah! All he way back to the Lower Paleolithic!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Paleolithic

Save our civilization! Vote Trump/Vance!