‘Shut Up, or Else’ Works – Until it Doesn’tWill Alexander
May 09, 2022
It’s no shock these days that when liberals and leftists don’t get their way, they ignore facts, shrug off civilized debate, and revel like spoiled children in hyperbole, intimidation, threats of violence, and actual violence. Given how dangerous this stuff is, they’ve ignored history, too.
“Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized,” wrote journalist Walter Lippman in The Public Philosophy (1955). “They are only precariously civilized, and with us there is the propensity, persistence as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.”
Democrats have butchered that lesson, today. The abortion kerfuffle is just the latest example. But as much as they scream about protecting America’s marginalized groups; their “shut up, or else” tactics are the same ones that pro-slavery Democrats used for decades before the Civil War: Threaten the anti-slavery side with violence so they keep quiet.
Many did, especially politicians, because pro-slavers were dead serious about using votes and violence to protect their right to own men as property. So, even in the early 1800s, no matter how deep the anti-slavery sentiment was, the sentiment that hung heaviest in the air was “shut up, or else.”
That was until Representative James Tallmadge broke his silence in 1819 by proposing that Missouri – next in line to join the Union – be “born free.” The response he got was like what you’d expect today if someone proposed, say, overturning Roe v. Wade.
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Source:
https://townhall.com/columnists/willalexander/2022/05/09/shut-up-or-else-works--until-it-doesnt-n2606942
