Democrats frightened at the thought of free speech

 Derek Hunter:

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Now we see the left, once again, exposing themselves for what they really are. When Elon Musk offered almost 10 percent more than the company is worth to buy Twitter, any normal person who owned stock would have been ecstatic at the prospect. The stock had already surged since it was reported he’d been gobbling up shares, so another 10 percent is like an unexpected Christmas bonus, especially if you’d been holding the stock for a while.

Instead, this news was greeted like a loud fart in an elevator. How could that be? It’s because Musk has threatened to institute what the left fears more than almost anything – actual free speech on a public platform.

If you’re terrified by the prospect of free speech for everyone, you’re probably a fascist. It doesn’t really matter how much “fair trade” coffee you drink or how many pictures of yourself holding up a haloed cartoon drawing of George Floyd you have in your Facebook profile photos, you are everything your virtue signaling pretends to be against. You are those mini-Nazis screaming “THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!” endlessly to prevent someone they don’t agree with from speaking without irony or self-awareness.

People with confidence in their beliefs, and facts on their side, don’t do everything possible to prevent contrary opinions from being heard. Democrats are terrified that Elon Musk has publicly stated his belief that people, even and especially people with unpopular opinions or thoughts contrary to the establishment, should be free to express them online. This terrifies the left.

Progressives have never embraced free speech as anything more than a shield to protect themselves from responsibility for what they inspire (see James Hodgekinson), because the very idea is a threat to their hold on power. They don’t debate, they’re ill-equipped to, they just insist and threaten others into silence. If people were allowed to spread ideas, to contradict progressive dogma openly, who knows where that might lead?
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Freedom can be a scary thing, especially for control freaks like the modern Democrats.  I think democracy can survive freedom of speech.  Whether the current Democrats could survive is a question that they apparently doubt.