Another excellent examination of the left by Doug Hagin:
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These students at Columbia had a perfect right to disagree and to debate the issues they disagreed with Gilchrist about. They did not wish to debate though. They wished to bully Gilchrist into silence. Of course, similar tactics of intimidation have been used against other Conservative speakers on college campuses. Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Bill Kristol, Pat Buchanan and others have had pies thrown at them, and had the stages they were attempting to speak on rushed in a threatening manner. Behold Leftist tolerance! As a Conservative who has given speeches on several occasions, I wonder if I will ever get the opportunity to be rushed by some neo-Marxist speech censor. I would consider it an honor to drop the first thug who tried it frankly.
Why are Leftists prone to act this way? Immaturity perhaps? Maybe since their entire ideological value system is based on emotionalism they find it hard to control themselves. Maybe their general lack of a belief in God, or in any reasonable moral code, allows such behavior. Personally, I think it comes from their desperate fear that the other side will actually be heard.
If I had to bet on one thing being the root of Leftist censorship of free speech, it would be that reason. Face it, Leftist theology (yes, I think they are deeply religious, worshipping at the altar of Marx) is not one that can stand up to intellectual scrutiny. Every single ideal they hold dear has been proven an utter failure in the real world. Gun control, abortion on demand, high taxation, and pacifism in the face of evil, you name it, and the far left is dead wrong about it. So it only makes sense that they would stoop to any act, no matter how pathetic, to silence the other side.
Deep down, deep in their hearts they know their ideology is flat wrong, yet their emotionally driven nature will never allow facts to overrule their feelings. In the end their feelings is all they have, is, ultimately, all they are. No way will they allow those feelings to change. Allowing an open examination of their ideals would lead to a rejection of those ideals. For a Leftist, rejecting their ideals would mean they would force them to let go of their delusional desire for some Marxist utopia. They will do anything to avoid that, including crushing the freedom they claim to hold most dear!
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Wow... this guy understands the mental disorder of leftism very, very well... I found myself nodding as I read his article, going, yes, exactly... this is my own conclusion as well...
For the sake of humanity, we must continue to closely scrutinize the left, analyze it and expose it to the light of day.
We must also convince more and more people to leave the left for their own good and for the good of all humanity.
Leftism is a disease of the mind. Fortunately, it is a curable one. Let's help leftists to get better. Confrontation is very important. Never blindly accept leftist dogma, for that only worsens their mental disorder, emboldening them to become even more ill. Question them. Challenge them to prove/demonstrate the veracity of their claims and dogmas. Show them reality. Keep on doing it, keep on, keep on... eventually, the truth just might shatter the opaque glass prison inside their minds which separates them from reality, perpetuating their cerebral incarceration stemming from their delusionality.
Don't be afraid to make leftists feel uncomfortable with leftism. After all, sane people are uncomfortable with leftism!
