That the Left is ranting hysterically over Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter is both absurd and ironic. In fact the hysteria in question validates the very reason for his purchase.
In a recent Tweet, Musk declared: “I strongly supported Obama for president, but today’s Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists.” Feeling that that extremism has been responsible for the growing tendency of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook to censor dissenting points of view, Musk, while no doubt continuing to harbor his “progressive” values, seems eager to defend the principle of Freedom of Speech. It is a principle which America’s founding fathers and most contemporary “conservatives” have found essential to the democratic process. And yet amongst the many anguished employees of Twitter and the mainstream media in general, that principle really doesn’t seem to matter. On Sunday, May 1, Leftist journalist David Zurawik declared on CNN that Musk’s purchase of Twitter represented a dangerous threat to American values. In the same interview he also said that Trump had “opened the gates of hell.” So for Zurawik, America’s values are his values and any alternate point of view is simply satanic.
Those presently in control of both the cultural and political narratives of the West are quite literally religious fanatics, Inquisitors willing to cancel any point of view other than their own. While asserting that he is in no way a “fan of the far right,” Musk says that the ideologues who have hijacked the Democratic Party seem to hate “everyone, including themselves.” All White people are racists, whether they know it or not; as all Men are misogynists, all straight people homophobes, all Christians Islamophobes, etc., etc. Hatred! Hatred! Hatred! It’s the Neo-Marxist factor to which the woke Left reduces all of History, even the most rational, the most objectively verifiable of truths, now dispatched to that category.
Recent discussion of the formation of a Disinformation Governance Board within the Department of Homeland Security sheds light on the dangers of such dictatorial boards. In interviews on NBC and CNN, Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of the DHS, vowed that the board would not infringe on Free Speech and would only censor disinformation coming from foreign sources. When asked by Dana Bash for assurance that American citizens would be immune from the board’s reach, Mayorkas was evasive, as he also was when she asked him how he might have felt had the Trump government made such a move. Ironically, Nina Jankowiez, appointed to head the new board, can be seen in a video posted by Dan Bongino stating, while Trump was still president, that the executive branch should never have such powers of censorship. Even more ironic is the fact that she betrayed her own brazen political bias when, a couple of years ago, she denounced the Hunter Biden laptop story, which has of course proven to be true, as a “fairy tale” concocted by the obviously sleazy Trump campaign. When informed that the head of his new “truth” committee had expressed such an obviously biased opinion, Mayorkas admitted, somewhat sheepishly, that he had not been aware of that fact.
Endorsing the Principle which all true “conservatives” deem essential to the Democratic process, podcaster and author Matt Taibbi, recently interviewed by Megyn Kelly, insisted that the only real defense against “disinformation” is Free Speech. Echoing the very same sentiment, senator Rand Paul posed the following question to Mayorkas: “You think the American people need you to tell them what the truth is?”
While the elitists of the Left, those who ironically purport to value equal rights for all, paradoxically look down with disdain on the vast majority of the species, the Enlightenment architects of out modern Democracies endorsed the Principle of Free Speech precisely because they trusted Man’s capacity as an intelligent, moral being. Leftist ideologues constantly invoke the dangers posed by fanatical right-wing groups such as QAnon as if they might very well come to dominate the Western world. But not only do such groups have no influence whatsoever in either the mainstream media or among legitimate “conservatives,” their radical views are utterly incompatible with the common sense and decency of the so-called silent majority. Abominations such as Nazism are invariably imposed by power elites. Yet the contemporary Left would have you think that “populism” [i.e., the views of the ordinary person] represents the most dire threat to our Democracies, it’s incredible arrogance being anti-Democratic to its very core. And so, for example, Brexit, the decision of Britain’s citizens to defend the integrity of their amazing cultural heritage by withdrawing from the European Union, was denounced as the result of just so much populist racism, the significance of Human Culture to the brain-dead Left apparently being irrelevant.
My point is simply that issues which “progressives” habitually reduce to matters of hate are far more complex than they would ever admit. Claiming to occupy the intellectual high ground by stigmatizing most on the Right as religious fundamentalist simpletons, it is they who are in fact absurdly simplistic, their Neo-Marxist certitudes being eminently superficial. They therefore have no right whatsoever to cancel others on ideological grounds.
Devotion to the Principle of Free Speech rests upon the assumption that regular, decent people are far more likely to embrace the Truth than those beguiled by some political bias. Yet it is a political bias that has come to dominate the contemporary West, our “intellectual” overlords being oppressors of the very first magnitude, their loathing for the Principle of Free Speech being the most obvious symptom of their arrogance. Yet if you watch the mainstream media, you might easily be convinced that it is those who defend that Principle who are in fact the intolerant demagogues. Truly ridiculous!