Something to contemplate while you try and recoup this Saturday morning from the barge of 'talking heads' that we encounter each day, pontificating on what is actually happening to our political system, our society and just where our country is headed. The question now is are we at a 'tipping point' for losing our freedoms or is the battle just being joined by responsible citizens that can't turn their collective backs any longer, and have decided to take a stand to rescue the country from the progressive socialist that demand obedience to the 'new wave' mentality? rhetoric
It appears the jury is still out, but if the past few months of are any indication of what we can expect for the next months leading up to the November elections on where we are headed, I believe, unfortunately, the guys behind the curtain still have a firm grip on the levers of power. Still, hope springs eternal that, in the end, common sense and logic will prevail reestablishing a government that the people will recognize and accept as being in their best interest.
The Heritage Foundation - Jim DeMint
Today, I'd like to talk about liberal hypocrisy. Liberals like to consider themselves open-minded and accepting, but in reality they are responsible for building a culture of intolerance. If you don't want your daughter to have to share bathrooms with "gender fluid" boys, liberals will call you a bigot. If you believe in constitutional rights like religious freedom, gun rights, and freedom of speech, you are labeled ignorant.
Theirs is a dangerous approach, but an effective one. It's insulting to be called an ignorant bigot, and there's no way to counter ad hominem attacks like that. The liberals have capitalized on this for their own ends. More and more, we see the government using its power to restrict speech and intimidate private groups and businesses. College campuses are hostile to diverse viewpoints and students shout down public speakers in the name of “tolerance." Corporate leaders are forced to resign and pastors are fined for proclaiming church teaching.
These are just a few examples of liberalism’s legacy in America. Now at its zenith, progressive liberalism is turning on itself. It is becoming its opposite: closed-minded and intolerant to different points of views and interests.
My colleague Kim Holmes recently published a new book confronting this epidemic, The Closing of the Liberal Mind: How Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left. In it he reveals how liberals in America have abandoned their traditions and become a force for denying people’s rights and freedoms.
The closing of the liberal mind threatens not only free speech and freedom of conscience, but constitutional rights that at one time had been among America’s greatest causes. It is upending the very constitutional order that once was the bastion of American freedom and equality, which is a grave threat to the country. Holmes believes that it is still possible to “save [America] from the ravages of the postmodern left.” But, he counsels, it will require moderate liberals who still care about our freedoms to come together with conservatives at this pivotal time in history.
Jim DeMint
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