It cannot be emphasized enough that liberal governance will be a reflection of its priorities. To bring that point home consider the recent plight of a homosexual Democrat television personality (HDTP) who dared to suggest that the left shouldn’t go too far left.
Van Ness noted that “luckily” more than a few “extreme right people won yesterday,” which he said means “center left candidates” can reclaim control of the House of Representatives and Senate as well as state legislatures.
“It is so important for the left to not go too left, or we are done for,” Van Ness added.
He added in other tweets that “not all Republicans are racist,” just as not all Democrats are “evil.”
Sounds like a balanced view, more or less, considering that he is a high-profile gay man in the entertainment business and regarded as successful.
The tolerant left wasn’t having any of that.
The Blaze sorted a few of the replies out for you here,
- “This is the worst political advice ever. Progressive candidates that actually stand for something are how we win. Running towards the center with Clinton just gave us 4 years of Trump — let’s not be silly again. People want universal healthcare… period.”
- “At this point, if they are still supporting Trump, they are racists at worst, don’t care if people are racists at best. Sorry, [Jonathan], I see no way around this. I’ve severed ties with family members who insist on supporting Trump.”
- “Jonathan, you’re white.”
- “Next time just write you know nothing about politics.”
- “There is no clean Republican: they know exactly what their party does, and they like it.”
Clinton is the center. That gives you an idea of the context of what the “far right” might look like from way over there. John McCain. Mitt Romney. Shawn Jasper. Stewart Levenson.
Moderates with questionable political pedigrees as inclined to be swamp-things as middling rubber-stamps for ruling class inside-the-beltway priorities. Not exactly the sort you can count on to block spending or keep your money out of the hands of planned parenthood. More likely than not to embrace the media narrative on bump-stock bans of red flag laws. DC rats nibbling at the edges of free speech and property rights to appease the creatures who fuel the political machine.
“Well-meaning” threats to liberty or not so well-meaning.
The point is that the left still lays out the playing field at the national level. If you want to be on their board, they want you to make certain concessions, always toward the left of center, a point that can never be far enough left.
If Democrats want to get there (or appear to) they say things like ‘not all Republicans are racist’ knowing they’ll take flak for it.
To his credit, Van Ness isn’t backing down. And while that’s not even a small comfort where his narrative/worldview has bought into the idea that a president who has done more for blacks in two years than the black-president before him did in eight, at least he’s willing to stand by those ‘principles’ while staring down the double-barrel of liberal intolerance.
Take a look. That’s the world they want you to live. And they won’t stop until they have it.
You don’t have to love politics or the games and name-calling and all else that goes with it, but this is real. They mean business. Your speech will be policed. Your thoughts will be used against you. It’s been going on at the local college campus for years, and it’s coming after the country.
If you don’t engage in the process while you still can, it will find you. You will no only be made to care, and you will be made to pay for the cost of policing your words and your thoughts.
That is a priority to the left. Settling for a soft center will only delay the inevitable. We need real conservatives who will fight for liberty. Find them, support them, vote for them, and defend them.
Or you may find yourself looked at sideways for suggesting that not all Republicans are racists.
