To me, much of the left and right are interested in abolishing heresy. This portion of the left has just enough power to make the Democrats lose a Presidential election despite popular vote totals every few cycles. They don't have much Congressional representation. This portion of the right has total power over their party now and they have strong Congressional representation. "In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy," said Learned Hand. He also said “Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it."
I stand by everything I've said on here in the past and I don't have much to add. If people want to get behind a fundamental cause they should support abolition of the electoral college. And they should be ready to raise hell if Mueller gets fired. (If you couldn't surmise that Trump was coordinating with Russia over the course of his campaign, when he was bending over backwards to disavow U.S. Foreign policy orthodoxies on Russia and just generally kiss Putin's ass, then I'll never convince you. What the hell else would a "domestic enemy" look like? The justice process should play out.) But all I can really hope is that *classic* liberal values somehow reappear as a foundation for principled political action. "The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right" said the Learned Hand.
