“Remember then from where you have fallen.” – (Revelation 2:5).
In 1964, during Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson’s official oversight as the 36th President of the United States, the “Free Speech Movement” was formed to defy his administration’s ban of on-campus protesting over the Vietnam War. Their goal was consistent with that of any university.[1] Astonishingly however, the Wikipedia article on this topic, which was revised as recently as this month (Dec. 1) states, “To this day, the Movement’s legacy continues to shape American political dialogue both on college campuses and in broader society.”[2] Yet ironically, Leftists[3] today are seemingly clueless to the contradiction of their stance in the face of that Movement back in the 60’s to which they claim inspiration.
Indeed
left-of-center ideology today is thoroughly pervaded with a spirit of both
censorship and the suppression of honest debate[4]
in matters of substance, each of which fundamentally undermines freedom of
speech that is protected in the First Amendment of our U.S.
Constitution.[5] This ploy seeks, apparently, to buffer Leftists
from scrutiny by an informed public as applied in the following ways:
· In terms of posture, the Left’s chronic refusal to engage in dialogue with Conservatives destroys even the possibility of reaching a common understanding together. So much darker, then, is the prospect of reaching mutually acceptable solutions. Nonetheless, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Kamala Harris, to name a few, insist on unchecked grandstanding as opposed to constructive conversation.
· Censorship of critical facts has marked the ongoing ploy of all news networks, except Fox, over this recent Presidential election campaign. Not only did they forbid broadcasting the hundred-plus-nights of rampage when police were constrained from both halting the damage and protecting lives; they also refused to assign the blame to the refusal of Democrat Mayors to act.[6]
· In contradiction to scientific methodology[7] concerning Covid19, both Google and Facebook censor viewpoints that lie outside the prevailing Leftist vision, despite being advanced by renowned first-rank scientists who have advanced degrees in the very same relevant medical fields.[8]
· Leftism[9] has aided the obscurity in Joe Biden’s pre-election schemes both in terms of his “agenda” and his financial entanglements with China. Only after his win seemed sure, did the press report what they earlier mockingly dismissed; that Hunter Biden is under FBI investigation.
These factors each betray Leftism’s deep insecurity about
exposing their views to public scrutiny.
Indeed, apart from such ploys there is little prospect that they could
remotely prevail in an honest vote. I for
one gladly invite challenges to my own views.
How pathetic it is then that they fear to do the same.
[1] “University” can be defined by dividing the word into
its components: unity and diversity. The purpose of Universities is to reconcile
them.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement. Boldface mine.
[3] I use this term in the broad sense of belonging anywhere
on the left side of the ideological spectrum in contrast to conservatives or “the
Right.”
[4] Dr. John M. Ellis’ book, The Breakdown of Higher
Education: How it Happened, The Damage it Does, & What Can be Done. (Encounter,
2020), pp. 38f. One of his central
theses is that, beginning in the sixties there has been a profound shift in
educational goals on university campuses, from free academic inquiry
(irrespective of the ramifications the follow from them) on the one hand, and political
activism on the other. I agree with
his contention that the two goals are intellectually irreconcilable.
[5]
“Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of
the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress
of grievances.”
[6] See my Oct. 24 blog, “Rioting Gone Wild: But Why No
Longer?” at www.offensivechristianity.blogspot.com
[7] See my November 10, 2020 blog, “Leftism’s Claim to be
Champions of Science is a Gigantic Fraud,” (all six points). Ibid.
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