By Paul Weiser
A recurrent theme among liberals is the necessity of suppressing dissent. This is accomplished by law, by regulation, frequently by violence, always with a superior sneer of disapproval. Given that liberals claim allegiance to “free speech,” whence their obsession with preventing it?
The cause lies in liberalism’s nature as a constantly revising movement. Unlike conservatism, liberalism possesses no bedrock principals which cannot be compromised for the sake of novelty: it is a fashion faith, a cause-of-the-week.
This means that, beyond a fundamental grasp for power, liberalism has no anchor. It has flipped from anti-Semitism to holding anti-Semitism the worst thing in the world... and now returns to anti-Semitism in the form of Holocaust denial and support for Muslim exceptionalism, encouraging renewed genocide. When your sole guide is fashion you must follow where it leads or be left behind (out of power).
But why, then, suppress free speech - there must, after all, be infusions of new ideas to form fashion, must there not? In a word, no: there are few basic ideological building-blocks (race and class pretty well exhaust the menu in the absence of religion) and if anyone can revive a particular combination those with power - the “opinion leaders” - could lose their grip on it. Can’t allow that!
But beyond this, individuals do possess a sense of right and wrong unless they are absolute sociopaths. Liberal leaders must thus be able to suppress dissenting voices because, without the conservatives’ anchor in religion and unfashionable everyday common sense, anything at all could catch on: libs have been fascists and communists before, and will be again. To suppress such radical fashions liberals have only fashion tools: the sneer, the cut, the edict, the mob. These they apply indiscriminately - and, when a truly vicious fashion nevertheless arises, without success.
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