On the other hand, is it even possible that they could be more pro-Dem / pro-Commie than they already are today?
In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech; a thing terrible to publick traytors |
Benjamin Franklin, July 9, 1722 in the New England Courant. He was writing under the pseudonym "Silence Dogood." Franklin was just sixteen when he expressed that!