From the American Thinker
Their use of inflammatory adjectives (racist, bigot, sexist, homophobe, Islamophobe, Nazi, fascist, etc.) to describe their opponents is nothing but an attempt to shut down debate (reason).
The left have made holding a viewpoint not consistent with their own progressive dogma tantamount to murder.
Under this environment, finding common ground will be difficult, if not impossible. How can common ground be found, when one party (conservatives) are unable to use reason to make their case?
Make no mistake: what the left fears most is not that conservative ideas will fail, but that they’ll succeed. They can’t abide the thought that liberty and self-determination might supplant the nanny state and centralized control.
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This little snippet takes place in a Gulag labor camp called Ekibastuz located in Kazakstan. It’s the year 1953 and hunger strikes have started in protest of the conditions men were forced to endure. If men refuse to eat then he’s not obligated to work. This would led to violent reprisals. Finally a commission of enquiry if formed as to the “legitimacy” of the strikers demands.
“The lofty-browed villain of a lieutenant colonel was especially quick to interrupt the speakers: he had a nimble tongue, and the advantage of impunity. With his caustic interjections he thwarted each of our attempts to present our case. From the tone which the proceedings were beginning to take you would thought that only we faced any charges and needed to defend ourselves.”
“…But as they sat there all in a row at the long table, exhibiting their sleek, white complacent, uniformly blank physiognomies, it was plain that they had long ago degenerated into a distinct biological type, that verbal communication between us had broken beyond repair, and that we could exchange only. . .bullets.”
From The Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 3 chapter 11 “Tearing at the Chains”.
By Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Does this all sound vaguely familiar.
This is what eventually happens when progressives, socialist, communist acquired total political power and the force to weld it.
Also see Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, China.