Our friend David Horowitz makes the case that our present political crisis is not the result of polarized views on policy, but rather is caused by the Left’s outpouring of vicious hate and determination to crush all opposition.
Everybody agrees that our country is in crisis – and agrees that it is the worst crisis since the Civil War. But at the same time, we tell ourselves a comforting tale about the source of the crisis that perpetuates the problem instead of providing a path to ending it. We say our politics are “divisive” and talk about “unity and healing” as though that would miraculously be achieved if everybody stopped … what? Disagreeing? All politics is divisive. That’s the healthy basis of our constitutional order: the freedom to disagree. To suppress disagreement, to outlaw it – as many Democrats and their Big Tech and media allies – are demanding these days, is to end democracy as we know it.
The problem is not that we disagree. We are not suffering as a nation
from healthy disagreement. We are suffering from a Tsunami of Hate
emanating from the Democrat Party that seeks to demonize, criminalize
and extinguish dissent from the 75 million supporters of Donald Trump.
It is now official Washington dogma that to question an election result –
something the congressional Democrats have done in the face of every
Republican presidential victory since 2000 – is now “insurrection” and
“domestic terrorism,” or the incitement thereto, and needs to be
prosecuted and suppressed...........To Read More....
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