BRUCE CHARLTON writes about the rhetorical malfeasance of liberals. As he puts it, “The Left isn’t winning by having good arguments – it wins because people are punished for arguing against the Left.” He continues:

This is one of the things I find most frustrating, and increasingly frustrating: not so much that it happens, but that so many people cannot see that it is happening.

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There have been plenty of examples of coercive repression of opposition, indeed something of the sort is necessary to stable government – yet has there ever before been a situation where so many people are unaware of the coercion, deny the coercion, or think that it doesn’t make any significant difference, or that they personally can easily ‘see through’ the dense cloud of swirling lies which surrounds them?

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Jane S. writes:

Remember Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the great allegory about political correctness?

From the 1956 version:

Dr. Miles J. Bennell: In my practice, I’ve seen how people have allowed their humanity to drain away. Only it happened slowly instead of all at once. They didn’t seem to mind… All of us – a little bit – we harden our hearts, grow callous. Only when we have to fight to stay human do we realize how precious it is to us, how dear.

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