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Is best demonstrated in this story<\/a>, in which hundreds of thousands of British citizens have signed a petition to ban Donald Trump. \u00a0I know. \u00a0Tit for tat. \u00a0Serves him right. \u00a0Sew the wind and whirlwind and all. \u00a0And besides, do we really know if all who signed this petition are, in fact, liberal?<\/p>\n

That final one isn\u2019t the point. \u00a0Liberalism has clearly won the hearts and minds of the Dying West for some time. \u00a0Decades probably. \u00a0In fact, as has been pointed out to several I know who have worked in the government here in the States, you\u2019d be a fool to think Conservatism is represented in our government. \u00a0A few elected officials might be conservative in some manner. \u00a0But the majority of those who work in the trenches are usually decidedly to the Left of center.<\/p>\n

So it isn\u2019t that all signers of the petition are dictionary liberal. \u00a0But they are operating within the framework of a liberal dominated culture. \u00a0One that sees banning people as bad \u2013 until it\u2019s the right person. \u00a0So looking back at Kim Davis; why were so many happy to see her go to jail? \u00a0Because, she represents part of the ideals and beliefs that liberalism finds repugnant. \u00a0For the same reason people who see Islam as repugnant have no problem saying they should be barred from entering our country.<\/p>\n

But here is the difference. \u00a0The big difference. \u00a0The huge difference. \u00a0The difference where Conservatives come out looking better, if only somewhat, than their liberal counterparts. \u00a0Because Conservatives never said all religions are the same, all morals are equal, all values are opinions, live and let live and respect differences and tolerate all things and yada yada yada. \u00a0Conservatives have had no problem saying sometimes there is evil and you have to take measures to defeat it. And the evil isn\u2019t always us.<\/p>\n

For liberals, however, those lofty goals of absolute relativity and tolerance have proven easier to live in the breach than in the keeping. \u00a0So a movement that abhorred censorship finds itself backing the same. \u00a0The movement that has no problem sending someone to jail because they won\u2019t convert to a new moral absolute is appalled at the thought that some religions might see their beliefs as superior. \u00a0And those horrified at the thought of banning anyone suddenly call for a ban against those who suggest the same. <\/p>\n

Again, I realize it is likely a symbolic gesture more than a real call to legally ban a person. \u00a0Though England, like most non-US countries, has no beef with such things. \u00a0In the US, where banning and censoring were once in the same tent as Nazis and death camps, it\u2019s once again telling to see the changes in liberalism and just how the things liberalism once condemned are becoming the very tactics and approaches our liberal culture endorses. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"