Occasionally I tune in to CNN, actually appreciate some of its news discussions and otherwise grin and bear it. The other day, though, I frowned and decided not to bear it because here was this hoity-toity guy telling us how freedom would be endangered with Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court because the conservatives would outnumber the liberals.
Excuse me, but, with exceptions, liberals are among the worst enemies American freedom has.
What happened was “the Great Switch,” a phrase used by the historian Jacques Barzun in his book “From Dawn to Decadence.” In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he wrote, socialist enthusiasms began to creep into liberalism, causing ideals to bend in coercive directions. Grant accomplishments but wade through to our 21st century, and we find liberals forever fencing us in. Our big-government superiors, you see, are trying to deliver a centrally planned utopia on the way to being an authoritarian dystopia.
A major means for this undertaking is regulations, and there are multi-thousands of pages of them telling us what’s best for us, only it often isn’t. Businesses get smashed, your choices are more limited, legal threats start sneaking up on you. And guess who loved this stuff? President Barack Obama. He set all kinds of records giving us new regulations now being undone by President Donald Trump to the benefit of a booming economy and human flourishing.
The left is not restricted to government. At a vast number of ultra-liberal universities, another group of our betters limit free speech by students to designated zones, impose speech codes and skip due process when a female student accuses a male student of sexual abuse. Back to Washington, Democrats in Congress have proposed that gangster laws be employed against corporations questioning catastrophic climate change. A few years ago, all the Democratic members of the Senate voted for rewriting a portion of the First Amendment to further empower Congress to control political speech.