There is a central, overarching theme to the seemingly odd actions of the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, several state attorneys general, college administrations, and in the comments (and restrictions on comments) by much of the media.
It is the shared belief of all the above that opposition to progressive policies should be restricted or censored.
This is substantially different than prior periods of vehement political conflict. It is not just the dissenting ideas that are being challenged. It is the very right to disagree at all.
The trend was first noticed in education, predominately at universities, where moderate and especially conservative students were ostracized and penalized for their opposing views. It has now spread into the lower grades, where in some cases public education funds and facilities have been abused to push progressive propaganda.
It metastasized into the media, where anyone objecting to violent riots by left wing extremist organizations such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter were wrongly castigated as racist or fascist. Nonleftist comments were scrubbed out of social media, both by the corporations owning the sites and at the encouragement of federal bureaucracies. Both Presudents Obama and Biden sought to formalize this by developing policies and federal agencies to assault what they considered “disinformation,” meaning anything they disagreed with.
For much of the citizenry, the first inkling of how serious a crisis this had become did not arise until the bizarre reaction of the Department of Justice and the FBI to the objections of parents in Loudon County, Virginia. In the wake of an assault on a young girl essentially resulting from the educational system’s “woke” policies, angry parents were labelled as “domestic terrorists .”
The use of that term had become a tool in supressing opposition by the Obama Administration to attack veterans, who were prone to more conservative ideas.
Under Biden, In addition to worried parents, Catholics are now in the cross hairs under this concept due to their beliefs, particularly their objections to infanticide.
Biden’s infamous Philadephia speech, and his owngoing verbal assaults on what he terms “Mega Maga” voters are manifestations of the theme of no permissible opposition.
Presidents, of course, have always made speeches and comments that push the policies they campaigned for, and against ideas they oppose. What Biden has done, however, is to condemn not just the policies but the individuals, organizations, and the political party that advocate them, and he does so from the White House and in the course of his official duties. That is an open and clear violation of the federal Hatch Act.
Biden is not alone. Boston Mayor Wu has compiled lists of critics and submitted them to her police force. Hunter Biden has threatened former President Trump with legal action if he continues to criticize the Biden family.
Earlier this year, Senator Grassley (R-Ia) noted that he had never observed so much partisan political activity on the part of federal agencies. He emphasized that “It’s clear to me that the Justice Department and FBI are suffering from a political infection that – if it’s not defeated – will cause the American people to no longer trust these storied institutions. It will also threaten our American way of life. Unfortunately, this story of government abuse and political treachery is scarier than fiction.”
His concern us shared by Rep. Rick W. Allen, (R-Ga)who wrote in an Augusta Press article that “During just his first few days in office, President Biden signed a series of unilateral and partisan orders… House Democrats’ top legislative priority, H.R. 1, federalizes elections and tramples on the rights of state legislatures, bodies with the constitutional authority to reform election laws. The bill also outlaws voter verification – despite 74 percent of Georgia voters supporting voter ID – and allows political campaigns to be subsidized with taxpayer dollars. It’s a shameless attempt to keep one party in power.”
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