It is clear that we are presently on a path to authoritarianism / tyranny. Are we already there? Yes. To varying extents, in my opinion. What’s yours?
Throughout history, free societies have descended into tyranny. What was their threshold of tyranny? When their populations realized they can use the power of government to give themselves benefits at the expense of others.
Many will sacrifice their freedoms and liberty for a variety of reasons. Money and wealth. Perceived safety. Free stuff. “Bread & Circuses”. Humans are not angels. Some crave power and control over others.
A government will naturally expand beyond its basic role. It’s the natural order of things. Unless diligently limited and curtailed (the original intent of the U.S. Constitution).
Unbridled, a government will begin to infringe on liberty and people’s rights. Eventually it grows into a authoritarian / tyrannical behemoth. History reveals that it can get much worse than that…
A tyrannical government will first clamp down on free speech and political opposition.
Frederick Douglass said, “Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.”
True to the core. We are seeing the dread of tyrants in real time, right now. The Globalist elites in cooperation with the U.S. “deep state” entities, Big Tech and almost 100% of mainstream media. They have been, and are, striking down the thoughts and opinions of dissent against their far-left globalist political ideology and goals to bring us all under their one-world dominion rule.
When free speech has been curtailed, the defense of freedom becomes much more difficult, if not impossible. It is always the priority in the order of things.
It’s so bad right now that it’s causing a ‘chilling affect’. That’s when people think twice about speaking, writing, or in any way challenging or opposing. Why? For fear of being targeted in some way. It suppresses free speech.
Dissenting political opinion is being targeted in extreme fashion, right now. Tactics include shadow banning, outright banning, doxing, canceling (cancel culture), intimidation, threats, assault, and even murder.
So let me ask you. How much worse will the varying forms of our tyranny get?
People will tolerate until it until it is intolerable. It has happened slow and sure. We have been frogs slowly boiled in water. Some frogs are beginning to jump out. Those that do are being whack-a-moled. Will there ever be a “critical mass”? Food for thought.
Ken your Article is right on, so many, many, folks felt the pressure to restrict speech; Ultra-perceived sensitivity became a norm for other's to infer that speaking truth to power must be their reality, so one was labeled a negative label to shut one down. Pure stupidity ensued and backed by loud mouthy excuses for Demo Representation in Government, Craziness!
ReplyDeleteSo many Citizen's have read Orwell's 1984, possess logic, common-sense, are rational, intelligent, God loving, law-abiding Citizen's, do know our Constitutional Rights, and know wrongs from rights! Therefore, yes, many see the writing on the wall, have risen above the fray, and realize there have been many brainwashed, dumb-down followers believing the unfortunately allowed, thus far, Propaganda pushed!!
America should not have speech silenced, communist tactic's allowed by MSM for disseminating our News, and the other nonsense that violates American's rights, in my opinion! We are watching a Presidency being rigged too, our votes negated by nefarious criminal intent, IMO!
To not go completely over the cliff, we need to have questionable votes thrown out, President Trump the winner, and apparently arrests of many folks involved with trying to over-throw our Government, in my opinion! This would be an example, a start, and needs to occur, to give the majority of American's a sense that our Hopes, Prayer's, are showing
progress for, The Good of All in the Name of God"!! We will go from there, it's not over...yet!