If anyone doubts that the entire Bill of Rights would be totally trashed by the Liberals let them look at how they treat the speech of their opponents. Liberals have long been trying to abolish the Second Ammendment and supporters of the Decond asked if the First would be far behind. With their attempts to silence their opponets we now can see clearly that there is no personal liberty these new guardians of our fate would allow to remain.
Mike Long is spot-on here. In his diagnosis, he illuminates the exact reason why America no longer has anything resembling a real political dialogue:
One side cannot argue. It knows that both the evidence and logic are against it.
A lot of rice bowls are endangered by the continuing conservative resurgence. People don't allow their careers and reputations, to say nothing of their emotional and social capital, to be shorn from them without a fight. And if they can't fight fair, a distressing fraction of them will fight dirty.
Be ready, my friends. Be well-informed, thoughtful, and secure in your convictions. If it's right, it doesn't matter how many people think otherwise.
"Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one." -- Henry David Thoreau.
Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit The Palace Of Reason:
http://palaceofreason.com
They're the children of Stalin.
Nat Hentoff is one of my favorite lefties - in
Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee he addresses this tendency of the left for insistence on lockstep adherence to the party line. One of the enduring conundrums of liberal (in the old sense) democracy is how to insist on free speech for all and still protect against those who take advantage of that for themselves in pursuit of enough power to deny it to others. The commonest manifestation of this is the notion that some folks are "freer" than others and that for them free speech includes shouting down dissent. It isn't much of a stretch, really, for people for whom the meanings of words are infinitely plastic and subordinate to an overweening political agenda, not nearly so much as redefining "speech," for example, to burning flags and to taking off one's clothing and pouring chocolate over oneself. As it is today in the United States.