Posted on 08/13/2020 4:57:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber
As of August 2020, we Americans are embroiled in an intensifying cold civil war. Democrats and the left are the aggressors. Cancel culture is a chief weapon. It's not being employed wholesale — yet — but it is being selectively used as a means of instilling fear in the citizenry.
As morally repugnant as cancel culture is, in war, the question is invariably asked: must we fight fire with fire? Must we cancel the left and its allies to stop their Jacobin terror? It's a legitimate question.
Decent Americans are, naturally, repulsed by the tactic — and, increasingly, personally threatened. Go crosswise the "progressives" and their leftist allies, and you could be unemployed, your reputation ruined.
Alexis de Tocqueville observed back in the early 1800s that Americans prize peace and stability. Makes sense, doesn't it? Peace and stability — under liberty — leads to real progress.
Most of us today are not at all different. We want matters settled civilly, through discussion and debate and at ballot boxes. There's no room for intimidation and violence. The Silent Majority awaits the November elections.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I done fighting with principle when our opponents are fighting to win by any means necessary. Civility can return once the left is crushed.
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