...”Not any different than what happens in communist China.”...
Yes. Anyone here, regardless of how you feel about FOXNEWS, should watch Tucker Carlson. He is the “Paul Revere,” of American journalism as he demonstrates night after night the cultural atrocities which are taking place to silence civilized people and hand them over to one dictatorship or another in this country. Intimidation and threats are key to understanding the left in America today. It is no different than the way Hitler’s brown shirts attacked the normal life and freedoms of certain people in that country in the late 30s. How America and its representatives can sit by and do nothing in the face of what is going on, is the mystery.
>>How America and its representatives can sit by and do nothing in the face of what is going on, is the mystery.
First, America’s representatives are largely in on it. They talk a good game during elections, but their actions speak loudly.
Second, the Progs control the media, education, and the courts that are willing to take action.
Third, the Progs have a united agenda. They all buy in on the whole thing, no matter how repugnant. Example: a pro-life Prog who considers himself to be a good Christian, but will defend every piece of the Prog agenda because he believes that it will all balance out. Yes, it is cognitive dissonance, but that’s how they vote, so the pathology is irrelevant.
Finally, we are good people who mind our own business. So, in the interest of live and let live, we alllow them to build entire constituencies from groups that should not be permitted to see the light of day. They use political Jiu-jitsu to use our own committment to freedom against us. If we stop believing in personal freedom, then we become them. If we don’t, then we have to accept “National Transgender Buddhists for Gun Safety and Wealth Redistribution” as a real thing. Becuase the Progs certainly will! If you push back against part of their agenda (i.e. gun “safety”), they attack us for being anti-Buddhist or transphobic. Then, the media, education, and the courts back them on it.
So, it will get worse. Much worse. There is no fixing it until they make their big play to take our freedom and then we decide: do I submit or do I shoot? But they won’t take them all at once. Which freedom do we use as a line in the sand? What if they know that and make that the last one they take?
Usually communism begins with the economics and then turns into totalitarianism as a matter of necessarily to make people do the work and obey the ideology. In the case of America’s Progs, they are creating the totalitarian state first and then giving us the economy. The bad part is that it is working. We are letting our rights be taken because we value our businesses, jobs, and our wealth more. We know the tiger will eat us. We just want to be eaten last.