More than just scorned. They must lose their jobs or be imprisoned for not catering to the party line.
I remember reading accounts of conservatives in Washington when it first became fashionable for liberals to abandon civility at gatherings, parties etc. and to publicly abuse conservatives. No longer were greetings and civilities exchanged and instead, the liberal socialite would claim the high ground by making a show of walking away when addressed by a conservative. I remember thinking it would make politics so much harsher if one displayed one’s opinion of others’ values and ideas so aggressively.
I didn’t know it was intentional, coordinated by the media and others. The sudden resort to public abuse was liberals opening the “culture war”; they couldn’t win in the marketplace of ideas so they decided to work together with media and government to shut opposing views out of the marketplace entirely. The way to do that? Alinsky tactics - behave as if conservatives are spouting shameful ideas and hateful bigotry whenever they speak. In some sense, it worked. Conservatives hide or tone down their thoughts.
In a MAJOR sense their tactics failed - we weren’t shouting them down at Starbucks, it was nice and quiet going to the polls, and at the polls we said whatever we wanted to say. They lost and it shocked them to the core because they had NO IDEA just how many people didn’t agree with them. Score for our side.
Just read an article on FR today wherein Kat Von D (Makeup artist/company) stripped a contest winner of their award strictly because they supported Trump on Facebook.
http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article162859068.html
The “artist” made it personal, stressing it was her personal opinion and values behind the move to strip the contestant of the prize. They haven’t given up on silencing us - it’s just not going very well for them.
Very well thought out. Thank you.