Death of Principled Rhetoric

The election of a completely unprincipled person to the presidency has enabled the barely repressed unprincipled nature of all Leftists to emerge into the light.

"A major conceit of the left is that opposing viewpoints aren't just wrong, they are evil or, at least, morally suspect. Leftists reveal much about themselves when they argue that a conservative's position is driven only by self-interest or greed. Rather than argue intellectually against a conservative view, they need to discredit it, make it illegitimate and beneath public debate. So too is political speech to argue conservative values. The left has an enormous financial infrastructure to further its views, but conservatives doing the same are using "dark money."

The Huffington Post, which keeps hyperbole permanently stuck on 11, spooks its readers with warnings that "dark money groups have already spent more than you think." The HuffPo and the rest of the left define "dark money" groups as non-profits who don't have to disclose the identity of donors. This non-disclosure of donors is actually a byproduct of the civil rights struggle, when the government sought to protect donors from intimidation by groups like the KKK. Given that conservatives feel the need for anonymity over their political speech is a stark reflection of how far leftist rhetoric has devolved.

Ahead of his reelection in 2012, President Obama published an "enemies list" of donors to his opponent Mitt Romney. Obama's campaign even urged supporters to "report" attacks on the President's record. Business Frank VanderSloot found himself the subject of two IRS audits, an investigation by the Department of Labor and the subject of an investigation by a Democrat Senate staffer, just days and weeks after being publicly named as a major Romney donor."

The Left used to squeal and shriek about free speech - for themselves, as if they couldn't be heard for some reason not obvious to the rational observer. Now the Left seeks to condemn all nonconformist speech as immoral, since such speech disagrees with the uber-moral Leftist Messiahist salvation of the Herd by conforming them to equal outcomes and equal thought processes. Tolerance of only the Left is the new First Amendment interpretation. All nonconformist speech is Hate Speech.

As with all Atheism, the Left is the creator of all moral principles within their own realm and worldview. This renders everything non-Leftist immoral, and evil. Evil is to be destroyed, and tolerating it is just more evil. This intolerance is the slammed door in the face of the majority of the population, and the declaration of war on the Herd.