Crossing the Line

Dennis Prager is a thoughtful guy, as is Charles Krauthammer, and both of them have now said that the Left has become totalitarian. There is no concern for dialogue or debate on the Left - it's our way or the highway, as the CEO of Mozilla recently learned. The implications, though, are much broader, for society as we have known it and particularly for the Church.

The Church's authority is moral and relies on the very things that the Left will no longer tolerate. In other countries where this has happened a persecution of the Church has inevitably resulted. Authoritarians cannot permit any other source of authority to effectively compete with them, whether Stalin, Hitler, or Mao and it will be no different here if the Left is not checked. 

Right now it is primarily bluff - their bark is louder than their bite. But they will continue to accrue power if there is not a widespread and continuous push back to their loudly shouted efforts to intimidate. We need to resolutely ground our push back in the language of the Declaration of Independence - the dignity of each person rests in the inalienable rights granted by God, not government. It is government that is to serve the people for this reason and not the reverse. That was the genius of the American Revolution and it is something with which the Left cannot compete.

townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2014/04/15/what-the-left-did-last-week-n1824437