The Democrats have never been so blatant in their distaste and disregard for the First Amendment. Where the general American population sees it as their most precious right, the Democrat Party has demonstrated time and again that they view it as an obstacle to go over, under, around, or through if need be.
If you need a quick reminder of just how anti-free speech it actually is, then let's go back to some recent events that have already been memory-holed by the media.
Remember that this is the same party that came up with the Disinformation Governance Board, a 1984-style Ministry of Truth that would effectively become a way to let the government silence and censor American citizens and companies if they utter what they deem to be "misinformation."
On many occasions, Democrats love reminding us that not all speech is protected, discussing how "hate speech" isn't something that falls under the protected umbrella of the Constitution. As The Hill notes, this has been the crux of many of the Democrats' strikes against free speech:
In prior testimony before Congress on the censorship system under the Biden administration, I was taken aback when the committee’s ranking Democrat, Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands), declared, “I hope that [all members] recognize that there is speech that is not constitutionally protected,” and then referenced hate speech as an example.
That false claim has been echoed by others such as Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), who is a lawyer. “If you espouse hate,” he said, “…you’re not protected under the First Amendment.” Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean declared the identical position: “Hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment.”
Even some dictionaries now espouse this false premise, defining “hate speech” as “Speech not protected by the First Amendment, because it is intended to foster hatred against individuals or groups based on race, religion, gender, sexual preference, place of national origin, or other improper classification.”
Then there's the DNC's candidates for president and vice president, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, two people who clearly detest your right to free speech.
Walz boldly declared on MSNBC that there is no right to free speech when it comes to "misinformation."
Governor Tim Walz once told MSNBC that there is "no guarantee to free speech" and then immediately tied it to 'democracy.'
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 7, 2024
Remarkable.
"There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, especially around our democracy."
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During her run for president in 2020, Harris herself said she'd hold social media companies accountable for "hate" and "misinformation."
“2018 was the deadliest year on record for domestic terrorism since the Oklahoma City bombing more than 20 years ago, and I’m telling you, we can’t feed it, I’m telling you I won’t ignore it, I won’t tolerate it,” Harris said.
“If you profit off of hate, if you act as a megaphone for misinformation or cyber warfare, if you don’t police your platforms, we are going to hold you accountable,” she added.
The issue with all of this is that "hate" and "misinformation" are nebulous, and oftentimes disingenuous terms. It would be defined by whatever is convenient to those in power at the moment, and to quote Captain America, "this is run by people with agendas and agendas change."
When it comes to defining what speech is, the safest hands are still our own, and that kind of thinking is incredibly inconvenient to Democrats.
Here's what I can tell you with some certainty. Monday night's conversation between Trump and Musk scared the left. It definitely scared the media, as I went into in a previous article.
(READ: The Media Should Definitely Be Panicking)
What the left saw last night was a complete reduction of their narrative control, and narrative is everything. They don't like the fact that two men were able to discuss the state of the world and the future of it with complete autonomy. Ideas fired freely without a filter or guardrails. The elites couldn't insert themselves into it in any way. They had no means by which to do so.
Rest assured, they aren't going to just let this go. Believe me, they took this personally, and they're not just mad at Musk or Trump, they're mad at you for tuning in and listening.
Perhaps their hands are a little tied right now, but should Kamala Harris win, you can bet that there will be a full-on war waged against free speech, and they will use every dirty trick in the book to limit it. Harris and Walz are more than willing to accomplish this, and the DNC is salivating at the idea of a United States where the internet is under their control once more.
Vote accordingly.
