Throughout the media, it’s a universal truism: Smart people with personalities go into radio; people who get by on looks go into TV.
It’s conventionally-accepted wisdom throughout the world of mass communications.
I have exactly as much factual oomph saying that as former Channel 5 weatherperson and DFL senator Nicole Mitchell (DFL, what else, Woodbury) talking about the civil liberty law:
She’s referring to Schenck vs. United States – in which an anti-draft protester during World War One sued over having his civil rights trampled on by the Woodrow Wilson administration, often regarded as a toxically stupid decision, one which the SCOTUS reversed in defense of a Klansman’s right to free speech.
But you know what’s more toxic than that?
Let’s say, for purposes of argument, that society has the communal wisdom to abrogate rights “for the public good” without doing vastly more harm than good – again, just for purposes of argument.
Who defines “the common good?”
Traditionally, it was families, churches, and traditional social institutions that had stood the test of hundreds, sometimes thousands of years .
The DFL and Big Left have been tearing those institutions down, and replacing them with…
…themselves.
It’s as plain a statement as there is that the DFL wants your civil rights – all of them – to be political swag to be doled out as rewards, if at all.
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