This is an excellent speech and a sad speech at the same time. It is excellent in its defense of freedom, but sad that it is a rarity these days. The spirit shown in this video should be the norm, not the exception.
The spirit that was once common in this country is now quite uncommon. It think it is like the story from way back during the early 19th century. Thomas Jefferson was so alarmed by the sectionalism arising within the country, that he described it a like hearing a fire bell in the night. This cancel culture is going to be the end of us all if we don't get a handle on it.
The kinds of things happening today should be like a flashing red idiot light on your dash. Everybody should be alarmed at what's happening in this country. So I present things like this to try to get anybody out there who may read this to wake the hell up.
One thing that struck me about what he said was that 2/3rds of the people are willing to abandon everything they believe in order to comply with some authority. Doesn't seem to matter to them that they are violating their most strongly held beliefs. They just surrender to the authority. That's how you get an Adolf Hitler. That's how you get a Josef Stalin. That's how you get a Mao Tse Tung.
If this is an immutable fact, then we are doomed. I'd like to think otherwise. As long as there is the right to dissent, a mad cap leader, or clique of mad cap leaders cannot lead down the path of doom without our knowledge and consent. That is why the right to dissent is precious. Not so much anymore, but it once was.
Maybe we can get it back again. But it doesn't look good at the moment. Cancel the cancel culture. Put it on the trash heap of history like the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. There are those would do the opposite. Beware of those kinds of people.
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