Progressives
believe the way to stop violence, foster equity, and increase happiness is to
ban everything. Ban ‘misgendering’ and ‘dead-naming.’ Ban mean or ‘offensive’
tweets or posts. Ban guns. Ban ammunition. Ban knives. Ban air conditioning. Ban
gas stoves and appliances. Ban shirts with the names of firearm manufacturers
on them from our school grounds. Bannish parents from school board meetings. Ban
gasoline operated vehicles. Ban fracking. Ban oil exploration. Ban nuclear
power plants. Ban hate-speech (except their own). Ban the Ten Commandments from
appearing in public. Ban pastors from reciting certain Bible passages. Ban
designated-sex bathrooms. Ban the sale of soft drinks in containers over, say,
16 or 24 ounces. Ban trans-fats (but not trans-kids!).
At
this point, a particularly astute observer may detect a pattern.
Some
particularly radical leftists even want to ban ICE/border enforcement, police, the
free-market system, Capitalism, the pursuit of profit (except their own), the
opposing political party…and opposing political thought.
Preposterously,
many progressives claim that all of this is for ‘our own good,’ or even to
‘save our democracy.’ But banning everything is not progressive, not
good, and not the answer. Attempting to ban your political opponents is the
opposite of attempting to ‘save our democracy.’ So called ‘progressives’ would
have us be as a train racing blindly down the wrong track…towards a deep, dark
abyss.
Inanimate
objects aren’t the problem. The search for affordable energy is not a problem. The
desire to force others to think like you, act like you, and worship you,
however, is a problem. And that desire and problem, that intolerance disguised
as tolerance, is evil.
We
can’t ban evil. But we can recognize its existence. And we can fight it
and defeat it.
That
is precisely what must happen, if we are to prevent the
extinction of freedom and morality. And, possibly, humanity itself.
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