Perhaps the most signal manifestation of the full regression is the willingness of both political sides to censor and suppress speech . . . of the other side. From T.L. Davis at tldavis.substack.com:
The tendency for governments to impose their will against that of the people is pervasive. The Magna Carta and the US Constitution were attempts to keep the excesses to a minimum, but nothing can overcome the human desire to control everything in their environment. It’s the way mankind has survived and where modifications to one’s environment become artistic, rather than merely functional, it can be said that humanity has progressed.
We are in full regression from that lofty ideal of making what is merely functional, a government, into something artistic: a republic that respects the rights and individuality of the human being. It’s not enough, it seems, to encode that into the constitution, write a Bill of Rights; every time the left or the right are insulted by speech, they want to eliminate freedom of speech for one side or the other.
Let me say, unequivocally, that it is no less distasteful coming from the right as it is from the left. The very idea, the concept, that the Trump Administration will seek to punish speech that is not directly associated with the call to violence against a specific target is just reprehensible, not only to me, but what would have been so to Charlie Kirk himself. I cannot think of a more ridiculous tribute to Charlie Kirk than to limit speech that criticizes him or Turning Point USA with legal force. It is purely disgraceful. Where those same attitudes are directed toward antisemitism it is even more repugnant. This is the tactic of such great totalitarians as the Soviets, the CCP and Islamists, not free people.
PCR is out with one saying that the Grand Old Politburo (R) is Israel uber alles while stuck in a Cold War mindset regarding Russia and the CPUSA (D) branch of the Uni is all about foreigners and deviants.
While we are stuck in the middle like Gerry Rafferty and Stealer’s Wheel.
Sir Thomas More used the maxim ” Qui tacet consentit.” The maxim of the law is “Silence gives consent.”
Thus, in silencing of our speech, we consent….