If you've ever spent any time at all reading the comment sections on a liberal web site, then you already know what are the two biggest threats to life as we know it in the world's greatest democracy, the United States. They are, of course Fox News and the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that allowed corporations and unions to spend freely from their treasuries in order to influence elections and public policies.
Notice that in both cases, we are dealing with speech alone. Despite the fact that anybody who disagrees with Fox or any of the companies that choose to speak out for policies that they favor, are perfectly free to speak themselves, in full throated opposition, this does not appeal to them as a remedy. It used to be said that the answer to the problem of free speech, is more free speech. But now it seems the answer is just less speech all around.
And notice where their efforts are concentrated in the matter of the debate on climate change. There has been zero effort to win the debate. No, ending the debate is the only thing in which they are interested. Sceptics are "deniers, " as in "Holocaust deniers," and Al Gore is now openly calling for their punishment.
And they wonder why we call them "ill-liberals."
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