Leftism cannot survive scrutiny. It requires artificial supports. It must delete the opposition.
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Freedom of speech is essential
If free speech is an enemy of leftism, perhaps leftism is a bad idea?
That's the thing. What do we mean by left? The entire idea of left and right is predicatedupon the archaic view circa 1800s that resulted from the structure of the French government, whereby the aristocrats were on the right of parliament while the peopIe were on the left.
Eventually, as (classical) liberalism became more and moreso popular with the people, it became associated with the left. The thing is, ever since the muhpartyswitch (which had beenfomented from a false premise, g iven that the Civil Rights Democrat biII to repeaI racist Democrat Iaw was signed by more Republicans %wise than Democrats) classical liberals became modern conservatives.
We hold the same ideals as those who were fighting the aristocratic authority of oIde, from freedom of speech, less taxes, and less government and is probably why they hate us.
Full disclosure: I write this not to GAW, as most of us already know this crap. I write this to the troIIs and shiIIs who genuinely think they're moraIIy right. Seriously, here's a link from the WSJ article about the 1964 Civil Rights Act if you don't believe it.
The true scale isn't just left/right. Its left/right, then Authoritarian/Libertarian. There are those who want to use the full force of government to get their way, and those that want the government out of their pet issues entirely, and those that fall in between, all on a similar scale to how important various left/right issues are to them.
FOR INSTANCE: A "leftist" is perfectly happy using government to force a bakery to cater a gay wedding that the bakery owner doesn't want to. Thats authoritarian. Likewise, a leftist that would just be happy never doing business with said bakery is a libertarian left winger. Most of the time those are just 'center left' on the traditional left/right scale. On the other hand, those on the right want the full force of government to ban abortions as 'murder.' To prosecute those that get an abortion anyway as guilty of murdering their child. That is authoritarian.
Your examples suck. Infringing on someones freedom to choose not to bake a cake for sodomites is in no way, shape of form the same thing as outlawing the murder of the unborn.
Free speech is also an enemy of religious fundamentalism.