Hate Mail - I'll Stop Saying It When It Stops Being Necessary To Say It

A lot of the things I have come to see are the self-defeating habits of thought of the American left such as free-speech absolutism, are deeply ingrained ones.  They're not the kind of thing you can make a rational argument against once or even ten times and make a dent in that habit, that's the reason I repeat some of the things I say, making new arguments, repeating old ones, coming up with new angles of attack on them.  

I certainly don't apologize for attacking those things that the left does that have led us into the political wilderness from the high point of American liberalism, that summer fifty-five years ago when a tidal wave of major liberal legislation started and built over the next year.  The reaction to that, the attack on that started working fifty-one years ago with the election that led to Nixon and he began to use the Supreme Court to destroy American liberalism and began the dismantling of egalitarian democracy.   The mass media, for those of you too young to remember that election, were pretty blatantly in favor of Nixon over Hubert Humphrey as they were even more so against George McGovern four years later.  The pathetic ink on paper rags and small distribution magazines still delude themselves that their ability to bleat out weak counter voices against the massive corporate amplification of the rest of the media are, by now, known to be too unrealistic to be much help.   Watch as the media, from the heights of the Great Gray Drab of the New York Times down to the gutter levels of FOX and below act pretty much the same way they did in 1972 as Nixon's criminality was widely exposed.   There's a lot more of that "more speech" than there is the "more speech" you recommend to fight against it.  To not understand the power that mass media being "mass" brings to those with wealth and money is as stupid as believing in a six-day creation or that there is no climate change or that vaccines are more dangerous than the diseases they prevent.

If secularist, First Amendment absolutism, the mass media freed to lie and, with Reagan, absolved from a responsibility to serve a free People, etc. were going to thwart Republican-fascism, it would have worked by now.  It is the stupidest part of the habits of thought endemic to the would-be American left that it never, ever learns from its mistakes, it never mounts a sufficient and effective self-critique of the part it played in its own destruction.   The friggin' ACLU, as I pointed out, that beacon of secular lefty-liberalishness was thick as thieves with the Republican-fascists in that and even many of the authentic liberals among them are too addled by rote pities of civic credulity to understand that history.