Dr. Seuss meets Cancel Culture
So, now the Thought Police have gone after Dr. Seuss.
This should be the final straw for the 80 or 90 percent of us who are very aware how stifling Cancel Culture is to a supposedly free and democratic country.
Or is it?
Is it just one more backhand to Americans who will complain, grouse, then move on in fear of being cancelled themselves?
After all, doesn't every totalitarian state begin with the suppression of ideas? Burning books? Banning media? Exiling dissidents? Don't they all start by telling us The Government is here to help us and protect us from ourselves?
A few practitioners would be Stalin, Hitler, Mao, to name a few.
And what government and political group wants to see how much citizens will give up without being threatened by a gun? After all, there is this flu bug that forced countless small businesses to fold forever, despite the fact that none of those owners were threatened with violence or, in most cases, fines.
Starting with Don Imus 20 years ago, and as recently as Gina Carano a week ago, a faction in our country has used the terrorist threat of removing someone's ability to earn a living if they simply say or write anything that the Politically Correct crowd deems incorrect.
Ironically, the same group who railed against the Communist Blacklist of the 1950s is the same ne that wants entertainers to go bankrupt simply for having a different view about politics, faith or society.
As chilling as that has been, the Dr. Seuss attack is a new low and it forced me to ask myself, how far are we willing to let this go before we do something more than just complain and lay low?
Knocking down Civil War statues was not enough?
Suing bakeries for refusing to cater a gay wedding was not enough?
Waco and Ruby Ridge were not enough?
The unending threats of gun control are not enough?
Then when is it "enough"?
When some black-booted, body-armored, well armed thug in a uniform is standing on your neck?
When uniformed men direct your family onto a train?
Or will we wait until our kids and grandkids are the ones getting rounded up?
Let's face it, Americans on both sides, we will not solve these differences through politics and social shifts. We are too far apart. So why not just let the non-cancel-culture, non-PC states and counties split away from the others, as the founders intended in the first place? Or at the very least, dismantle the massive federal government and let states and counties decide their own fates?
We can share a common currency, common defense and interstate travel, and leave the cultural, social and political issues to local Americans to decide for themselves.
But it will not happen and the reason why proves the real motives of the Cancel-Culture Clique: What they really want is the power to flaunt their superior intellect and compassion over all of us. And that power is removed when Americans can sinmply say, "I do not care what you think."
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