The Left are the New Puritans

They want to get into our bedroom, kitchen, car, club, school, business, church, hobby, sport, reading list, habits...and control them. They want to be the only arbiters of taste and culture, of vice and virtue.

They want the power to determine what we eat, what we smoke, what we drink and how much. They want control over what we drive and what we shoot. They want to determine the by-laws and memberships lists of the clubs we may join. The want to control what we see, what we hear, what we read and what we think. They want to determine with whom we must associate, whom we must hire, what our ministers may say and where they may say it. They want to silence people, networks, writers and speakers of whom they don't approve. They want to do this for our own good and the improvement of society.

This is the argument the original Puritans used when they burned the witches at Salem: for the good of their souls and the protection of the community.

These Neo-Puritans fear individualism which breeds people who will not obey. They encourage dependence and victimhood which breeds sheep who will. They hate courage and honor, they are insults to their character. They undermine accomplishment which engenders true self-respect while encouraging an empty "self-esteem" which depends upon flattery and the opinion of others. They fear truth because it will expose their agenda and their lies. They hate freedom because it lessens their power. They fear justice because it would leave them to their own pitiful devices and limited talents. They reject responsibility because it requires effort, industriousness, perseverance and sacrifice; virtues they have in short supply. They disdain the making of money, but tax others for theirs.
They subvert the language to their own ends. They call preference justice, justice intolerance, intolerance virtue, and virtue judgementalism. They call tribalism multiculturalism, freedom crime, crime ignorance, ingorance equality, hatred empowerment, knowledge elitism, capitalism fascism and socialism democracy.

They are a great danger to liberty because they use the language of liberty to forward an agenda that despises it. They encourage ingorance, resentment, a sense of entitlement, emotionalism and anger. They disparage the lessons of history, the use of logic, and the conclusions of reason. They incite class and racial hatreds, seeking to divide and conquer.

They are in love with themselves and their pretty notions of utopia. That their narcisism does not allow reality to penetrate their fanaticism is typical of would-be tyrants. These Neo-Puritans must be opposed at every opportunity...before we find ourselves tied to burning stakes.

(Unfortunately, you can't just shoot the Bastards)

The Gunslinger