If I'd thought about this article a bit more, and spent another few hours on it, I'd have included this:
Any parent who knows anything knows that the natural consequences of a child's misbehavior will teach a far better lesson than any artificial consequence ever could.
But Democrats are bad parents who treat Americans like bad children. They want the power to create and enforce speech codes that don't (and never can) work.
America already has a speech code, and it's called Proverbs 21:23: “Those who guard their mouths and their tongues keep themselves from calamity.” It is superior because a) it is voluntary, and b) anyone who breaks it suffers the natural consequences of "f#ck around and find out." That truth will make you free.
Democrats desperately want to save their crumbling and deeply un-American ideology: the supremacy of collective rights over individual rights, and a power structure that says compelling speech and forcing behavior is “freedom.” That "truth" ends in slavery.
If that ideology wins, America is done. Put your shoulder to the wheel and help. All you have to do is speak up.
"We need a social vision that is as morally compelling as identity politics but does a better job of describing reality."
In other words, Progressives need to better mask their agenda with euphemisms that better deceive the general public in order to exert their will over society. There is no better substitute for identity politics than to be sacrificed on the alter of public humiliation and relegated to the ash heap of history. Collectivism, no matter what form it takes, is the supreme danger to the ideals of liberty and the individual. And no amount of political gobbledygook will ever be able to dress it up and make it palatable. $#!+ will always taste like $#!+ no matter how much salt and pepper or how much sugar you use to "dress it up." It will always be just that, $hit!
If I'd thought about this article a bit more, and spent another few hours on it, I'd have included this:
Any parent who knows anything knows that the natural consequences of a child's misbehavior will teach a far better lesson than any artificial consequence ever could.
But Democrats are bad parents who treat Americans like bad children. They want the power to create and enforce speech codes that don't (and never can) work.
America already has a speech code, and it's called Proverbs 21:23: “Those who guard their mouths and their tongues keep themselves from calamity.” It is superior because a) it is voluntary, and b) anyone who breaks it suffers the natural consequences of "f#ck around and find out." That truth will make you free.
Democrats desperately want to save their crumbling and deeply un-American ideology: the supremacy of collective rights over individual rights, and a power structure that says compelling speech and forcing behavior is “freedom.” That "truth" ends in slavery.
If that ideology wins, America is done. Put your shoulder to the wheel and help. All you have to do is speak up.
"We need a social vision that is as morally compelling as identity politics but does a better job of describing reality."
In other words, Progressives need to better mask their agenda with euphemisms that better deceive the general public in order to exert their will over society. There is no better substitute for identity politics than to be sacrificed on the alter of public humiliation and relegated to the ash heap of history. Collectivism, no matter what form it takes, is the supreme danger to the ideals of liberty and the individual. And no amount of political gobbledygook will ever be able to dress it up and make it palatable. $#!+ will always taste like $#!+ no matter how much salt and pepper or how much sugar you use to "dress it up." It will always be just that, $hit!
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