IMPORT/EXPORT CRISIS PT. II: DESTRUCTION OF FREE SPEECH COMING FROM ACROSS THE POND / EU "HATE SPEECH" INSANITY
Vol. II | Issue. 162 | May 4, 2023
While America has had a decades-long standing import/export crisis regarding world trade impacting our economy in the worst way, it pales by comparison with America's import of terrible ideas which have rocked our society and sought to destroy the fabric of American exceptionalism. Somehow, despite the fact that out of the wilderness and without precedent, America was built and established as a nation like none other in history. Through the tyranny of governance in the "old world", i.e. Europe, armed struggle, and the enlightened inspiration of our Founding Fathers, America was born and established as a Constitutional Republic. As America struggled to successfully extricate itself from the tyrannical systems of European governance, we now find ourselves being influenced by their terrible system of governance, which through its most recent incarnation of the European Union (EU), is just the latest example of collective tyranny.
Between their brain-dead monarchies and their genetically defective families, dictators, and three other forms of failed governance, the EU is nothing more than a collection of power-mad, unelected, know-nothing “elites” that have destroyed the independent governance of every formerly sovereign European nation. Sadly, they can't help themselves because Europe has no real homegrown experience in true ground-up democracy. Since virtually every nation in Europe has been spawned by and through some form of dictatorship or monarchal rule, all of the seemingly democratic nation-states, formed mostly in the 20th century, were an imitative mirage. In the formation of those free democratic governments, who were France, Germany, Italy, etc., imitating? It was the United States, of course.
America, with our foundational pain in extricating ourselves from the old world, invented and perfected a unique form of independent governance and democracy. The rest of the world has imitated it poorly, but it really has never been their thing.
The cornerstone of our Constitutional Republic is the First Amendment to the Constitution, which reads:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The greatest threat to our Constitutional Republic is the destruction of our rights under the First Amendment. America's “Cancel Culture” during the past several years, with its vigorous support from the American Pravda and its partner in crime, the Democrat Industrial Complex, has fomented the Left's destruction of the First Amendment. Big Tech platforms in America have colluded in every way to suppress Free Speech and destroy the First Amendment with their "Supreme Courts of Truth", failure to report important stories that do not comport with their Leftist worldview, and through pure censorship. That is the au courant American sickness brought about by the Left in their effort to destroy America and is the homegrown sickness that we will either have to find a cure for, or America will not survive as America.
Now on to the moronic influence of the Europeans… First of all, it should be made clear that there has not been a single good idea regarding philosophy or governance coming out of Europe since the Enlightenment.
While the First Amendment is under siege in the U.S., there are foundational balancing institutions in place that have the power and potential to stop the madness. In Europe, the breeding ground of terrible ideas, there is no such potential. The EU, through their moronic spokesman European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton, has just adopted and announced the "Digital Service Act," which censors content that the lunatic EU considers hate speech and may fine them up to 6% of their global revenue or may ban them altogether. Of course, the EU “Elites” consider hate speech anything that differs from their political position, party line, latest woke-ism, or flavor of the day. Sickeningly, Big Tech will likely go along with the program as they have shown their own enthusiasm for stifling free speech in the U.S.
It is important for every American to understand that our Constitutional Republic is unique in the world. American exceptionalism based upon the foundation of the U.S. Constitution must remain intact, and all ideas advocated for and by the Left imported from other lands regarding governance have proven to be toxic and destructive of The American Way, whether they are Communism, Socialism, or the administrative tyranny of the EU.
America cast off the shackles of the “old world” long ago. We must avoid having to do so again because we will not have a second chance. Just remember, in the universe of ideas regarding governance, we should continue to be the world’s greatest exporter and ban all foreign imports...
America is its own brand.
-Emes