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" ā€œWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā€

ā€œIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā€
ā€œOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā€
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Which must always come to pass
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How shall I deal with you?
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Only Internet Fascism Can Save Democracy By Daniel Greenfield
Thursday, May 05, 2022

Berak Obummer

Robert Spencer : Like every Obama speech, ā€œChallenges to Democracy in the Digital Information Realmā€ didnā€™t offer anything new, just a distillation of familiar talking points and misplaced assumptions.

The assumption at the heart of Obamaā€™s speech and that of the range of arguments depicting free speech as a cultural and national threat is that the purpose of discourse is state power.

Obama, like many post-liberal lefty critics of free speech, reduces speech to its social impact and its social impact to its political impact. This holistic integration is so fundamental to Marxists and many lefties that they donā€™t even think twice about the idea that everything we do is reducible to a move on the great abacus of social justice. The food you eat, the car you buy, and the words you say have the potential to either save or damn the planet and humanity.

This quasi-religious conception of mass social mobilization pervades American society. Itā€™s the precondition for wokeness because the only possible moral justification for terrorizing random people on social media is the conviction that governance isnā€™t political, itā€™s social, and that the only way to avert climate change and social inequality is by controlling what everyone believes.

Wokeness collapses the distinction between the private and public spheres, and between government and individuals. In a national social crisis, the only conceptual framework through which the Left ever really governs, thereā€™s no time for such liberal niceties as private spheres.

Obamaā€™s speech neatly illustrates the fascism at the heart of this panopticon political project.

Introduce disagreement and you ā€œraise enough questionsā€ that people ā€œno longer know what to believeā€ and then ā€œlose trust in their leadersā€, ā€œmainstream mediaā€ and even ā€œtruthā€. Stripped of all the Brookings Institute globalist prose, what Obama is really saying is that individual disagreement undermines the state. And that truth is dependent on public faith in the state.

This is a value system utterly at odds with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, one which envisions an intimate link between individual speech and state authority that would have horrified King George III, but absolutely delighted Hitler or Stalin.

It assumes that there can be no other legitimate points of view other than the official one and that there should be no leaders except those who share them. Limiting the range of opinions is necessary to protect state power because there is no distinction between them and the state.

Or as a certain Austrian artist once put it, ā€œOne people, One state, One leaderā€.

When he was promoting his last book two years ago, Obama made the same arguments. ā€œIf we do not have the capacity to distinguish whatā€™s true from whatā€™s false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesnā€™t work. And by definition our democracy doesnā€™t work.ā€

The assumption that the democratic process leads to truth rather than choice, absolute rightness rather than people power, is an undemocratic paradigm. Its inevitable conclusion becomes that of Obama, that democracy must be protected by controlling the people.

Not only elections, but ideas, are too important to be left to the public.

Obama doesnā€™t want a marketplace of ideas because people might get the wrong idea and vote him and his political allies out of office. The explicit goal of internet censorship is to control election outcomes by filtering what information the public is able to access.

Like the provenance of a certain Delaware artistā€™s laptop.

Narrowing the range of acceptable information in order to narrow the range of acceptable opinions, candidates and political systems is the first fundamental trick of tyrannies. It takes a certain chutzpah and a stock of Orwellian buzzwords to redefine that as protecting democracy.

Obama complains, ā€œChinaā€™s built a great firewall around the Internet, turning it into a vehicle for domestic indoctrinationā€ and proposes a democratic firewall around the internet under a ā€œregulatory structureā€ to be designed with ā€œcommunities of colorā€ to slow ā€œthe spread of harmful content.ā€ The democratic people of color firewall will be so much better than Chinaā€™s firewall.

Pro-censorship elites have the same assumptions as China about the interaction between speech, society, and the state which is why they, like Obama, arrive at the same conclusions. They can dress up those conclusions in buzzwords about ā€œdemocracyā€ and ā€œpeople of colorā€, but those are differences of style, not substance. The trains all end up at the same station.

Obama speaks about ā€œbugsā€ in the Constitution. While he is always happy to critique America, the particular totalitarian bug here is deeply embedded into the leftist worldview which denies that people have individual agency, insists that everyone is a prisoner of their social context, and contends that the purpose of the society and the state is an enlightened intertwining. The bug, which is really more of a feature, directly leads to the same outcome as in China or Stanford.

A free society requires healthy breathing spaces between politics and life.The difference between a politicized society and a tyranny is only time. The question at the heart of this debate is ā€œWhat is discourse forā€ which is really the question of, ā€œWhat are people here for?ā€ To believe, as the Left does, that people primarily exist as vehicles for political change is to enslave them.

Thatā€™s why every leftist revolution invariably slides toward tyranny along the same worn tracks.

The Founding Fathers believed that people would self-define their purposes. That was why Americaā€™s revolution uniquely led to freedom and why leftist revolutions lead to tyranny.

America defined freedom as individual power while lefties define it by the power of the state.

Obama is simply replaying what happens when liberation is treated as a collective enterprise, a journey toward rather than from, that can only be achieved collectively, through the exercise of state power rather than individually through personal choices. The internet, once individualistic, has become collective, and social media, the ultimate embodiment of that collectivism, has become the battleground between individualist expressers and collectivist censors.

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