Throughout this election season, the communists/globalists have insistently and hysterically labeled Republican candidate Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again movement ‘A Threat to Democracy.’
This from frontpagemag.com.
In fact, while there are numerous legitimate threats to democracy today, arguably the greatest is the Left’s concerted assault on the most important foundational freedom America enjoys: The First Amendment.
The freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition guaranteed by the First Amendment (and guarded by the Second) are, of course, the most daunting obstacles to the imposition of tyranny in America. We are uniquely, in world history, blessed with this Constitutional protection; without it, we are at the mercy of the power-mad and their capricious and arbitrary manner of controlling our lives.
NOTE: With a radical liberal regime in power and seeking not only a second term but a permanent one-party hegemony, the drumbeat to flip the narrative and demonize the First Amendment as a supposed threat to democracy is gaining volume among Leftist government leaders and their allies in the Left-dominated mass propaganda media.
To wit:
– University of Michigan Law School professor and MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade declared recently that free speech is ‘our Achilles’ heel,’
– Columbia law professor and former Biden aide Tim Wu wrote a New York Times op-ed this July titled, The First Amendment Is Out of Control. In it he fear-mongered that free speech threatens ‘essential jobs of the state, such as protecting national security and the safety and privacy of its citizens,’
– [A] New York Times op-ed headline fretted, As Election Looms, Disinformation ‘Has Never Been Worse,’ a problem for which the writer blamed Republicans.
– [I]ndependent journalist Glenn Greenwald reported on a recent Harvard faculty event titled Breaking Free of the First Amendment in which free speech was described as ‘not about consistent or noble principles’ but about the convergence of power and ‘racial patriarchy.’ Greenwald, who can hardly be dismissed as Right-wing, called the event ‘the perfect expression of dominant left-liberal sentiment,’
– Tech billionaire Bill Gates, who is reportedly not Democrat or Republican but whose globalist, big-government vision aligns with the Left’s, recently spoke about wanting to create Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs that would restrict what he considers objectionable speech. He asked, ‘How do you balance free speech versus crazy stuff that got people not to take vaccines, for example?’
– A week later, [The Obiden-Harris Regime’s] ‘climate czar’ John Kerry stated in frustration at a World Economic Forum panel on Green Energy development that social media has made it ‘really hard to govern today’ and that ‘our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just, you know, hammer [disinformation] out of existence,’ and
– Then, in an October 5th interview with CNN host Michael Smerconish, failed [communist/globalist] presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned that ‘if [social media platforms] don’t moderate and monitor their content, we lose total control.’ [Emphasis added] She had previously told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that ‘a better deterrence’ against Americans who are ‘engaged in propaganda’ would be to be ‘civilly or even criminally charged,’
To document the threat, independent journalist Michael Shellenberger responded online to Hillary’s most recent interview:
Bill Gates two weeks ago, John Kerry last week, and Hillary Clinton today—all demanding government censorship of X. Hard to see this as a coincidence. They appear to be laying the groundwork for totalitarianism. Our democratic republic is in danger.
Indeed, the list of examples is seemingly never ending, and some on the Left are even more explicit about their ultimate aims. If allowed to progress unchecked, this will lead ultimately to the sort of intimidating government invasiveness one sees now in Britain, which has no First Amendment. There, police routinely knock on the doors of citizens who commit the crime of posting social media content that gives “offense.”
Further, briefly-stated examples of the Left at work against our First Amendment:
– The concept of hate speech, by the way, has proven to be an ingenious tool for driving a wedge into the First Amendment and then widening that fissure to assert greater and greater restrictions on speech. As Kim Holmes of the Heritage Foundation explains it, ‘the new purveyors of intolerance’ have exploited this concept to ‘sublimate their prohibitions on speech, expression, and thought into more popularly accepted channels.’
– Anti-free speech, from Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law professor at George Washington University and free speech advocate, has said the [Dementia Joe-Comrade Kamala Regime] is the most anti-free speech administration in two centuries. He calls it ‘the dream team for the anti-free speech movement.’ As if to prove his point, presidential candidate Harris’ running mate Tim Walz recently went on MSNBC to support censoring disinformation and falsely stated, ‘There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.’
– Elon Musk, Public Enemy #1, in a stunning revelation, independent journalists Paul D. Thacker and Matt Taibbi recently published leaked memos from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a Left-wing organization that targets media outlets it claims spread ‘online hate’ and ‘disinformation.’ The CCDH memos contained bulleted lists of goals from March to October 2024, the top priority of which was to ‘Kill Musk’s Twitter,’ referring to tech billionaire Elon Musk and his purchase of the social media platform he renamed X, which he vowed to maintain as a bastion of free speech online.
– Every presidential election in the 21st century, if not before, has been labeled the most consequential election of our time. But it’s not simply a cliché; in fact, every election has been the most consequential, because our political landscape has become increasingly fractured by an increasingly radical far-Left movement which dominates the Democrat Party [communist/globalist crime syndicate], a movement which now wields both political and cultural dominance, and which threatens to steer the country irreversibly farther Left under a potential Harris-Walz regime.
Jonathan Turley noted:
We are living through the most dangerous anti-free speech movement in American history. We have never before faced the current alliance of government, corporate, academic, and media forces aligned against free speech. A Harris-Walz administration with a supportive Congress could make this right entirely dispensable.
In Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 dystopian political novel It Can’t Happen Here, totalitarianism comes to America in the form of a fascist dictatorship. And then, appropriately, as Ronald Reagan once noted:
If fascism ever comes to America,
it will come in the name of liberalism.
We the People are experiencing an existential threat to our Constitutional Republic. As journalist Michael Shellenberger put it, “our democratic republic is in danger.” Once the First Amendment begins to be dismantled or rolled back, and tyranny expands, the Land of the Free could very well be lost forever.
Nearly 90 years after Lewis’ novel, fascism is on the march in the form of a purportedly liberal (but distinctly illiberal) political party obsessed with diluting, if not overturning, our First Amendment freedoms to eradicate what the party deems to be mis- and disinformation, i.e., inconvenient truths about its agenda—and to crush dissent.
Final thoughts: Fortunately, our Founding Fathers gave us the Second Amendment to safeguard our First Amendment.
I remember as a child thinking 2A was primarily for hunting and feeding oneself and a family.
Each day the full rationale of 2A becomes more apparent.
