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How liberals made the world nuts: They used to champion freedom and tolerance - and PIERS MORGAN has always been proud to be one. So how, he asks in his new book, have liberals become a shrieking mob hell-bent on silencing all dissent?
UK Daily Mail ^ | September 27 2020 | PIERS MORGAN

Posted on 09/26/2020 3:04:26 PM PDT by knighthawk

I don’t know when it first hit me that the world had gone nuts.

It might have been when an American white woman named Rachel Dolezal self-identified as black on national television despite both her parents being white. That was nuts.

Or perhaps it was when Altrincham Grammar School for Girls in Manchester asked staff to refrain from calling female students ‘girls’ because it might offend transgender students – yet didn’t change the gender-specific name of the school. That was nuts.

Maybe it was when there were strident calls from radical feminists – who, like all radicals, destroy support for their cause by taking everything to absurd extremes – for James Bond to be female. That was nuts.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: commies; liberals; woke
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1 posted on 09/26/2020 3:04:26 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

They were always that ... they just don’t hide it anymore


2 posted on 09/26/2020 3:06:06 PM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: knighthawk
So how, he asks in his new book, have liberals become a shrieking mob hell-bent on silencing all dissent?

Scratch any liberal, and you'll find a tyrant underneath.

3 posted on 09/26/2020 3:07:14 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: knighthawk

Yes.


4 posted on 09/26/2020 3:08:45 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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To: knighthawk

Piers Morgan is always an interesting read. He’s a liberal, I guess. But he quite often surprises on the upside. Way more often than “a broken clock is right twice a day” sort of thing.

I suspect that Morgan is actually deep down a conservative. Or a libertarian anyway. He just has great difficulty in shedding that liberal skin of his.


5 posted on 09/26/2020 3:11:52 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: elcid1970

I love your tagline.


6 posted on 09/26/2020 3:11:55 PM PDT by notpoliticallycorewrecked (I thank the good Lord everyday that I no longer live in CA.)
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To: knighthawk

I think there are many traditional old-line “liberals” who are thinking exactly the same thing. We need to encourage them, not stomp them into the ground.

One of the things I hate about some of the posters on FR is that they never forgive and never forget. So therefore, why should a liberal bother to change their opinion and take the grief for going public with their new opinion...if conservatives are going to hate you anyway for something they disagreed with you on in the past?

Forgive and forget and move on. Get support where you can.


7 posted on 09/26/2020 3:12:27 PM PDT by livius
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To: clamper1797

Not all of them. Remember Pat Moynihan? Zell Miller?

But sadly, they don’t make them like than anymore.


8 posted on 09/26/2020 3:13:07 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: knighthawk

Over time being a Liberal drives you completely Insane


9 posted on 09/26/2020 3:14:33 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: knighthawk

Pluralism is a way station on the way from one orthodoxy to another.


10 posted on 09/26/2020 3:18:45 PM PDT by edwinland
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To: knighthawk
They never were champions of either freedom or tolerance.

They were always purveyors of "do it my way or ELSE!"

You just used to agree with what they were forcing people to do.

Now you don't.

Welcome to hell boy-o.

11 posted on 09/26/2020 3:20:04 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
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To: knighthawk
These people never championed freedom and tolerance. The word "liberal" as applied to them is an Orwellian paradox, like "Love is hate," "Freedom is slavery," "War is peace."

They preach tolerance but practice intolerance, preach love but practice hate, preach diversity but demand conformity. Thet sort of thing.

You haven't been paying attention, Piers.

So why have liberals become a shrieking mob hell-bent on silencing all dissent?

They have always been hell-bent on silencing all dissent.

They have become a shrieking mob because they have been confronted with truth.

12 posted on 09/26/2020 3:22:39 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Sleazy Democrat operatives are whispering into Biden's ear. Trump hears the voices of the Angels.)
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To: knighthawk

They never championed anything that didnt have something for themselves


13 posted on 09/26/2020 3:23:01 PM PDT by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: Leaning Right

“Classic liberals” founded his country. Classic liberals are the 21st centuries conservatives.


14 posted on 09/26/2020 3:24:07 PM PDT by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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To: Leaning Right
I am reminded of one of my high school English teachers. A widow from WW II, she was devoted to my Catholic high school and its students. And liberal but deeply principled, she approved of and encouraged my reading of Conscience of a Conservative because she thought it important for me to develop my conservative political views instead of being ignorant. That type of liberal is so rare these days as to be functionally extinct.
15 posted on 09/26/2020 3:25:04 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: knighthawk

Man, Piers went on an almost epic rant there.


16 posted on 09/26/2020 3:25:19 PM PDT by Viking2002 (When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
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To: Chuckster

Good post, yours. And I agree. Piers Morgan is best described as a “classical liberal”. Those folks had common sense. And they would defend a conservative’s right to free speech even if they didn’t agree with it.

It’s a pity that so few of them remain.


17 posted on 09/26/2020 3:33:24 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: knighthawk

This is one of my favorite hobbyhorses. These current Leftists are NOT Liberals. Liberalism is a product of the Enlightenment, represented in the thought of such luminaries as Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and most of the Founders. True liberal values include: free individuals in a competitive society, free markets & free trade, rule of law, private property, trade, individual liberty, personal responsibility, Republics, Constitutions, small government.

This went downhill in the late 19th century with importation of German philosophical ideas and the related advent of Progressivism, which pretended to be Liberal in philosophy, but was anything but. The New Dealers hid their program of national socialism by calling themselves liberals.

Socialists and Communists detest Liberal values, but have used the name as a way to get into power through the Democrat Party. This has led what passes for conservatives in America to make “Liberal” a title of opprobrium, wrecking the brand forever. That’s a shame because it deprives many people, including most Freepers, of a concept that comes closer to their world view and values than “conservative.”


18 posted on 09/26/2020 3:33:27 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Leaning Right

For Morgan, that would be like becoming a Tottenham Hotspurs fan, after being an Arsenal fan all his life.


19 posted on 09/26/2020 3:35:36 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: knighthawk

duh

they just wanted the power

they love dictatorships and totalitarian systems


20 posted on 09/26/2020 3:37:18 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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