Generally, it is primal pride and fear that animate the actions and ambitions of those who would suppress freedom of expression.

Superstition, a primitive, fear based form of faith and belief, prevails among men in the absence from them of Reality founded infrastructures of faith and belief.

To control the systems of faith and belief of a human being is to control his life and his values, effectively.

Uncommon, common sense.

If only possessing right discernment were a natural condition and a necessary concomitant of democratic rule.

The Founders established a meritocratic
Republic, not a democracy.

The original American ethos, at its most virtuous, was essentially meritocratic in character, accommodating, as it did, an acknowledgement of the dignity of the individuality of the individual.

The development of democracy has in practice been demonstrated to be demeaning to the status of the Sovereign Individual, as its characteristic consequence
is a levelling of people.

The fault resides in fallen human nature.

Political ideologies and systems do not exist to have fundamentally transformative effects on the essential nature of Man.

They can exist to substantialize his vestigial virtues or his native frailties.

Were human beings reliably virtuous, Democracy would truly be practicable.

A verity which the Founders profoundly understood.

It can rightly be observed that virtually everything in this life, not excluding advertising, is a dual edged sword.

In the absence of the ennobling and constraining influence of Virtue, even that which is essentially wholesome can be rendered utterly contemptible.

The ambition of the State controlled indoctrination establishment is to "educate" the Sovereign Individual out of his or her morality grounded reason and native understanding.

As Thomas Jefferson expressed it:

" For a nation to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, is something that never was and never will be."

The quality of contemporary American journalistic, in actuality, propagandistic practice is such that its characteristically
soulless practictioners are unworthy of latching the sandals of the humblest of mechanics, much less of being compensated for their contemptibly subversive contributions.

Nominal Progressives, who regard themselves as being the most avant garde among us, in actuality are the most intellectually hidebound, the most morally retrograde, among us.

E. Archer,

As Thomas Corwin expressed it:

"Treason is in the air around us, everywhere.
It goes by the name patriotism."

The intensions of any who are honorably intentioned are inherently transparent.

They for whom the acquisition of power is a singular objective, an ambition such as is inimical to those for whom the ideal of the Sovereign Individual is an article of Faith, necessarily are not honorably intentioned.

A certain measure and definite concomitant
of the declension of our civilization is the declension of the character of journalistic practice.

They who are being animated in their actions not by right principles, particularly by a devotion to the revelation of the Truth, but by ambition and ideology necessarily want for honesty and integrity.

Ultimately, the matter is one of morality.

Excellent, E Archer.

An unencumbered by emotion or ideology, entirely faithful to reality, rendering of reality. Thank you.

As frail as he was in his humanity, a colossus by comparison with his bound by ideology, steeped in partisanship, unqualified and otherwise unworthy, by every definition, current successor.

Everything is a matter of right definition.

In its most sublime exemplification, Liberty is constituted of the freedom to act in a manner that is in accord with the dictates of protocols of conduct that are not devices of men.

Ultimately, Liberty and Justice can rightly be regarded as being concomitants of Righteousness, in the absence of which neither can truly be realized.

The French Revolution was a nihilistic, gratuitously sanguinary, moral and sociocultural convulsion, an utter burlesque of the American Revolution and an unholy precursor to the Bolshevik Revolution.

A characterization with which Madame Roland, likely, would be in agreement, sacrificed, as she was, on the altar not of Liberty but of ideology.

Human beings exist to profoundly influence one another, for good or for ill.

In a civilization that is in a state of free fall moral and sociocultural declension, the mirroring of values, attitudes and behavior such as occurs is almost necessarily malign in nature.

The true malady is that of Fallen Man's malleability and his attendant conformability to the world without him, born of the effects that the involution of his system of faith and belief has had, which renders him susceptible to succumbing to suasion, manipulation or the effects of traumatization.

As it is expressed by Paul, in Romans 12:2 -

"Be ye not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind..."

Totalitarianism is nothing less than the culmination of the process of the morbid devolution of authority from the Sovereign Individual to the ravening, power mongering, State.

They who are tired of Liberty are tired of Life, for true Liberty is the staff and the stuff of Life.

Conservatism under Liberty is the Natural State of Man.

"Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart."

~ Jeremy Bentham

" What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms."

~ Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787

" To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens."

~ Adolph Hitler

" Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."

~ William Pitt(The Younger) 1783

Not an absolute.

In the absence of good faith and will, debates can generate immeasurably more heat than light.

As it is sublimely expressed in 1 Kings 19:12 -

" After the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still
small voice."

Commonly, anyone who stands for the truth
stands alone.