Charles Krauthammer:
Two months ago, a petition bearing more than 110,000 signatures was delivered to The Post, demanding a ban on any article questioning global warming. The petition arrived the day before publication of my column, which consisted of precisely that heresy.
The column ran as usual. But I was gratified by the show of intolerance because it perfectly illustrated my argument that the left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation — no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition.
The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences — from social ostracism to vocational defenestration — upon those who refuse to be silenced.
Sometimes the word comes from on high, as when the president of the United States declares the science of global warming to be “settled.” Anyone who disagrees is then branded “anti-science.” And better still, a “denier” — a brilliantly chosen calumny meant to impute to the climate skeptic the opprobrium normally reserved for the hatemongers and crackpots who deny the Holocaust.
Then last week, another outbreak. The newest closing of the leftist mind is on gay marriage. Just as the science of global warming is settled, so, it seems, are the moral and philosophical merits of gay marriage.
To oppose it is nothing but bigotry, akin to racism. Opponents are to be similarly marginalized and shunned, destroyed personally and professionally.
Like the CEO of Mozilla who resigned under pressure just 10 days into his job when it was disclosed that six years earlier he had donated to California’s Proposition 8, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman.
But why stop with Brendan Eich, the victim of this high-tech lynching? Prop 8 passed by half a million votes. Six million Californians joined Eich in the crime of “privileging” traditional marriage. So did Barack Obama.In that same year, he declared that his Christian beliefs made him oppose gay marriage.
Yet under the new dispensation, this is outright bigotry. By that logic, the man whom the left so ecstatically carried to the White House in 2008 was equally a bigot.
The whole thing is so stupid as to be unworthy of exegesis. There is no logic. What’s at play is sheer ideological prejudice — and the enforcement of the new totalitarian norm that declares, unilaterally, certain issues to be closed
Right now the Left is acting out like Islam’s “Rage Boy.”
You might remember him.
Shakeel Ahmad Bhat.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=492864
He rented himself out to various causes in Islam as an inciter and perfect model of photogenic rage.
He could really YELL!
His eyes popped wide open, his mouth almost unhinged it was open so big and his yell was tremendous.
But the Rage Boy had something the Left lacks: violence behind the rage.
Maybe he wasn’t going to grab a pitchfork and skewer you, but maybe some other Muslim might.
From the Left it is just empty rage.
(And a few overturned SMART cars.)
They simply have no argument so they rage.
The far-left is exercising the extreme totalitarian bully tactics typical of socialist-fascist regimes. This is a culture war being waged for the final breaking of the will any who oppose the Socialist-Progressive movement. And the milquetoast RINOS leadership of the GOP leadership are meekly asking “Can’t we all just get along.” Forget 2016, this is the final thrust for 2014 to take an iron-fisted hold over the nation and force all it’s citizens into fearful surrendering refugees. The Progressives need to take over the election system before Republicans and Conservatives win control of Congress and can reign in Emperor Obama. To do so they have to misdirect attention into “climate change” and gay marriage sensationalism, while they quietly use Progressive tools like Boehner and Cantor to sneak in progressive agenda votes before the Conservatives even realize they are being stabbed in the back. The moment they get enough political GOP traitors like McCain to push through amnesty, this nation will be lost to utter subjugation under a all powerful State, or to break into civil war, which will also play right into the Progressive’s hand.
Know why thought regulation only affects conservatives? They are the only ones that actually have thoughts.
Banning skeptical articles that question AGW mythology is an integral part of the scientific method.