"The only way the Left can survive is to shut down dissent ..."

Interesting...the U.S. has a lot more varied and "freer" speech than Europe does – though if there really is a "nationalistic" revolution in the up-coming European Parliament vote, that might begin to change, one hopes. However, although the U.S. has a lot more media outlets for Conservative or Counter-Globalist opinion, taken all together, these are relatively small compared to the monolithic U.S. Mainstream Media. And it is incredible how constantly under assault what free speech the U.S. is.

For example: Tucker Carlson, the Fox News commentator, is currently under attack after a George Soros-funded group uncovered that Carlson made off-color jokes in the past. This article goes into the details of what he said (highlights are me own):

In his opening monologue Monday night, the Fox News host questioned the sincerity of the outraged misfits criticizing him.

"Maybe their moral puffery is a costume," Carlson speculated. "Maybe the whole conversation is an absurd joke. Maybe we're falling for it."

"You sometimes hear modern progressives described as 'new Puritans,'" Carlson continued. "That's a slur on colonial Americans. Whatever their flaws, the Puritans cared about the fate of the human soul and the moral regeneration of their society. Those are not topics that interest progressives. They're too busy pushing late-term abortion and cross-dressing on fifth graders. These are the people who write our movies and our sitcoms. They're not shocked by naughty words. They just pretend to be when it's useful."

Carlson explained what he thinks the left is really up to.

"The left's main goal – in case you haven't noticed – is controlling what you think. In order to do that, they have to control the information that you receive. Google and Facebook and Twitter are fully on board with that. They're happy to ban unapproved thoughts and they don't apologize for it," he pointed out.

And this article has two video links to his response. The first vid link is to his opening segment, where he explains how hypocritical American politics, Left and Right, is, and the second is an interesting conversation with one Tammy Bruce, an "old-style" Liberal. Bruce said, in part:

"The only way the Left can survive is to shut down dissent and eliminating individuals who might speak up with a different idea." Note that Bruce has a number of books on the Left's thought police and so on.

An Préachán