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An important new book by Kimberley Strassel concerning how the Left is silencing free speech through intimidation using government agents like Lois Lerner as well as street mobs.

A direct link to the youtube video is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhz_8dps0jI

The Intimidation Game, youtube link

Due to overuse, /racism/ has become a devalued word in the marketplace of ideas. The Left appreciates, but does not condone, precise, critical thinking.

In country after country, when left wingers are out of power, they are champions of unrestricted speech. Prior to 1917, Lenin and Trotsky were free speech advocates. If and when they gain the levers of power, they move to suppress opposition speech. We saw a preview of that under the Clinton Administration, with the use of the IRS to attack conservative organizations, a tactic the Obama Administration repeated and doubled down on. Meanwhile, gutter trash like SJWs and Black Lives Matter thugs intimidate opposition protests. This tactic is like a pincer: pressure from above and pressure from below. The Bolsheviks and Nazis followed the same route: the government found ways to suppress opposition and street thugs (Red Guard, Brown Shirts) physically intimidated any public demonstrations.

What makes America different from Russia, China, or Germany is the degree of independence that local and state governments have from the central authority. In the Northeast, the West Coast, and the Upper Midwest, and urban areas outside these regions, state and local authorities are of the same mindset as their Federal counterparts. Do not forget that the Left has plans to take over the rest. California is the template: a formerly moderate to conservative state has morphed into a cross between a Scandinavian socialist state and a Latin American narco-state. The Golden State is the Left's vision for the rest of the country, and indeed all the Western democracies.

However, until the remaining moderate to conservative states develop leadership with backbone, the fate of these states will be like that of California. Southern and Plains state politicians love to whine about Obama, the Federal bureaucracy, and the Federal courts. They pass toothless legislation that routinely gets struck down by the courts. However, no governor or legislature has threatened to actually stop Federal power through preventing the Feds from, for instance, blocking roads in national forests or refusing to pay for health care for illegal aliens.

Humanly speaking, I cannot see any hope for this country until state and local authorities unequivocally tell the Federal courts and bureaucracy that their decrees cannot be enforced in their jurisdictions.

Control of the language is, essentially, control of everything.

TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.

I see the Bill of Rights being effectively repealed in my lifetime. We are becoming a fascist state and it might require a second revolution to restore our Constitution