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Godwin’s law is obsolete.
Blacklisting and censorship are the hallmarks of the Bolshevik Party of America AKA The Democratic Party of America.
Despotism (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWSqboZr1w
“A community is low on a ‘Respect’ scale if common courtesy is withheld from large groups of people on account of their political attitudes.”
“...in a downright despotism opposition is dangerous whether the despotism is official or whether it is unofficial...”
“A community rates low on the ‘Information’ scale when the press, radio, and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told.”
“See how a community trains its teachers”
“...these students are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told. Questions are not encouraged.”
“And if books and newspapers and the radio [and facebook and youtube and...] are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to. Government censorship is one form of control. The newspaper that breaks the government censorship rule can be suspended. It is also possible for newspapers and other lines of communication to be controlled by private interests...”
Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx25aMPvbJo
“The newspapers of a real democracy meet these tests...”
Newspaper checks.
1. Balance of coverage
2. Disclosure of source
3. Competence of staff
Historically, authoritarian regimes use fictitious tales of treason as the pretext for crushing their political rivals and cowing their citizens into submission.
Propaganda organs parrot the regime’s party line while less compliant media are censored.
America is in a bad place. Elections alone will not extricate us.
Blacklist? Can we say that?
The media has became the instrument of the propaganda for the democrat party that believes it’s the political police.
The left hate for Trump is due to one thing he’s an outsider with the brains to make things greater in four years something the party of the left couldn’t do in it’s history of it’s party.
The left is doing all it can to save Fabianism.
*** head them off at the pass ***
That ship has already sailed..
The Left wants to cancel us out of jobs, bank accounts and eventually existence, and they are seriously talking about "reeducation" (AKA "death") camps.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Good grief!
The stogy old federalist up there in its ivory towers is, apparently, clueless about what is happening to the common serfs now!
They, as usual, are about two or three decades behind present-day events...
I don’t understand it. The Civil Rights Act redefines private businesses engaged in public commerce as “public institutions” in order to force them to comply with its mandates. But somehow our legislators and courts are incapable of defining these obvious public institutions as what they are in order to force them to comply with the 1st Amendment.
Cut ‘em off at the pass? I HATE that cliche! *BANG!*