Once upon a time liberals "spoke truff to power" and righteously called for the impeachment of a president over an enemies list and spying and bullying, which was bad even though the president in question was only spying and bullying and collecting the names of DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS, which, when you think about it, is sort of understandable though reprehensible and we should always be careful to act disapprovingly and tut-tut over such behavior and raise our eyebrows and purse our lips just to make sure everyone understands that we sincerely disapprove...even though it WAS directed just at Democratic politicians.Zoom ahead to the topsy-turvy world of today's liberals where they cheer their king when he turns the full force of government muscle on its OWN CITIZENS attempting to exercise their rights to support and elect candidates which represent their values. For today's liberals are staunch supporters of the king. Now they LOVE the government and the establishment and the power structure! Now they LOVE THE IRS for having an enemies list and bullying and spying! Now it's for "the cause." Now it's for King Obama. And, besides, it was highly effective. So don't expect any liberal to be upset or disapproving of the similar tactics of special prosecutor Francis Schmitz in Wisconsin.
Perhaps the probe will turn up some nefarious activity that warrants this subpoena monsoon and home raids. But in the meantime the effect is to limit political speech by intimidating these groups from participating in the 2014 campaign. Stifling allies of Mr. Walker would be an enormous in-kind contribution to Democrats. Even if no charges are filed, the subpoenas will have served as a form of speech suppression.
Mr. O'Keefe told us that the flurry of subpoenas "froze my communications and frightened many allies and vendors of the pro-taxpayer political movement in Wisconsin and across the country." Even if no one is ever convicted of a crime, he says, "the process is the punishment."(Emphasis most emphatically mine)
H/T: DOUBLEPLUSUNDEAD
I don't think there's a single thing Democrats accuse conservatives of that isn't projection. It's all either something that's true of them or it would be if they got the opportunity. Vote fraud/suppression, racism, anti-semitism, misogyny, anti-science, anti-intellectual, everything. Every last bit of it. The Democrat party is a social club for the mentally ill. Club in both senses of the word.
ReplyDeleteI think liberalism can only survive in an atmosphere of projection because liberals are emotional children and children aren't capable of understanding the moral responsibility of behavior. The "she made me do it!" is a perfectly reasonable childish outburst. In an adult, it's not so understandable. But children project. That's what they DO. A good measurement of maturity is seen in those who can be absolutely honest with themselves. Liberals simply can not. If they could, they could not also be liberals. So projection and dishonesty sort of come with the territory.
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