Critical dissent
September 16th 2007 03:30
Dissent has and always will be crucial to a country that wishes to be anything other than totalitarian. Those who would wish that upon a people are quick to do their best to shout down dissent, and they expect their leaders to do the same. Rudy Guliani, being the self-serving demagogue he is, was quick to try to turn dissent by moveon.org into a bludgeon he could use against Hillary Clinton. Why Hillary? Well, because she is the perceived front runner for the Democratic Party's nomination for the 2008 American Presidential elections and as such is subject to unfounded attacks and allegations. Never mind that Hillary Clinton has nothing to do with moveon.org, and the organization has even expressed mixed emotions about her as a candidate. All the matters to the vitriolic right is the chance to try to "swift boat" her the way they did John Kerry with unfounded and ludicrous allegations.
What happened to them is only symptomatic of a much wider problem that occurs at every level of discourse in America. If you are not blindly adhering to the failed policies of the Bush Administration and its cronies, you are labeled unpatriotic. If you dare to question the vile and unholy alliances between the Christian right and the corporatism and gross consumerism pushed in America, you are attacked. Of course, I do my own counter-punching, never flinching in the face of their pathetic attempts to silence dissent. What I will never do is to try to deny them their right to say anything, or to not be censored in any way. More power to them, for hopefully, in the near future, theirs will be the voices of dissent, complaining against a socially progressive American government. I welcome them, and work for that day.
What happened to them is only symptomatic of a much wider problem that occurs at every level of discourse in America. If you are not blindly adhering to the failed policies of the Bush Administration and its cronies, you are labeled unpatriotic. If you dare to question the vile and unholy alliances between the Christian right and the corporatism and gross consumerism pushed in America, you are attacked. Of course, I do my own counter-punching, never flinching in the face of their pathetic attempts to silence dissent. What I will never do is to try to deny them their right to say anything, or to not be censored in any way. More power to them, for hopefully, in the near future, theirs will be the voices of dissent, complaining against a socially progressive American government. I welcome them, and work for that day.
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