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[–]hfxB0oyA 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Exactly. I'm a left leaner and have been all my life, but this faction (sect, more like) of the "left" that's taken hold over the last few years bears nothing in common with the ideals I came up with. What happened to "I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It"? People who hold to that ideal are the ones I will be proud to be counted with - left, right or centre.

[–]copenseethe 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

"Free speech" is being characterized as a right wing dog whistle. You will hear very little defense of the 1stA from the left.

[–]BEB 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The Democrats' recent actions are making me really concerned that they are trying to gut the First Amendment right to free speech. I would never have thought that it would be the Democrats who took away one of Americans most sacred, and envied, rights.

[–]hetisachoice 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I tried to warn people for years that they were wolves in sheep's clothing. They didn't listen. The farthest far left, the ones who were really committed, tried to warn people for years. They didn't listen.

It was a Republican president, Dwight David Eisenhower, who warned us about the military-industrial complex. He also called public television "creeping socialism," so I wonder what he would have thought of Sesame Street which premiered the year he died and is now on HBO, a capitalist enterprise if ever there was one.