siding with the enemy
Read this definition of hate speech here and let me know what you think.
I think he is right! Free speech is not something enshrined in UK law as in the US but what we do have is being constantly eroded by the politics of fear.
There are many links on this site that will take you to predominantly right-wing (dark side) points of view. There are plenty others that take you to the light side and that has nearly always been where I would naturally position myself, most comfortably. In the seventies I did vote for the right but never since.
So what has that got to do with anything? Change is life and I am struggling with it. I no longer have the patience to solve problems the ‘liberal way’. I’m running out of time. The right offer quick fixes that make more sense in the short-term and we are all here for the short-term, after all. The fearmongers require us to think ahead, to see the bigger picture and to work for the greater good. I am learning daily that this is folly. The future will take care of its own. We are all the future product of somebody else’s past and we managed, and look what they left us with.
Don’t get me wrong. There is no man-made global warming or no real global warming to worry about. I am not talking about that kind of problem. I would be the first to support a project to protect the planet from an asteroid collision and want to do my best to protect as much ecology and habitat as possible. But preserve every building and landscape feature from the past and preserve/conserve as much of the ‘countryside’ as possible - no; that too is folly! There is plenty room for us all to spread out a bit.
None of that is really getting to the point. I have discovered, in my near dotage, that I am more and more aligning with right wing thinking (centre right). They have more solutions that would see beneficial change in my life time. Luckily they are still allowed to express their thoughts reasonably openly but for how much longer?
