By Josh Hawley | New York Post
Have you checked your social credit score lately? You might want to. Mine seems to have taken a nosedive this month. You might want to see how yours is doing.
Everyone knows what a credit score is. But social credit
scores are new. They’re the latest corporate import from Communist China, where
government and big business monitor every citizen’s social views and
statements.
And they’re the latest form of cancel culture in this
country, as corporate monopolies and the left team up to shut down speech they
don’t like and force their political agenda on America. For those who still
believe in free speech and the First Amendment, this is the time to take a
stand.
Like the old-fashioned kind of credit score, your social
credit requires a lot of maintenance. You’ll need to get good grades in school
and stay out of trouble with the law. But that’s just the start — you have to
earn your right to live in polite society these days. So if you want to get a
good job, stay at hotels and be served at restaurants, you will need to do a
few other things. You will need to voice the right opinions. You will need to
endorse the right ideas. You will need to conform. That’s what the corporate
chieftains tell us, anyway.
They tried to reprimand me this month because I didn’t.
On behalf of the voters of my state, I raised a challenge to the presidential
electors from Pennsylvania after that state conducted the election in violation
of the state constitution. Maybe you agree with me. Maybe you don’t. But
whatever your view, corporate America’s rush to cancel those it dislikes should
trouble you.
In my case, it started with leftist politicians demanding
I resign from office for representing the views of my constituents and leading
a democratic debate on the floor of the Senate.
Taking that cue, a corporate publishing house then
canceled a book it had asked me to write. Ironically enough, the book is about
political censorship by the most powerful corporations in America. (And will be
published by an independent publishing house.) Now corporate America is
canceling my political events, because two parties are apparently one too many
for their taste.
It will get worse. The tech titans have already booted
dozens of conservatives off social media, and if they have their way, half the
House Republican conference will be expelled from Congress. The corporate
titans seem to believe that the only way to get a democracy to their liking is
to eliminate all threats to the Democratic Party’s unified control of
government.
The alliance of leftists and woke capitalists hopes to
regulate the innermost thoughts of every American, from school age to
retirement. And they’ve trained enforcers of the woke orthodoxy to monitor
dissent or misbehavior. A “Karen” who cuts the wrong person off in traffic gets
followed home on a livestream and shamed into crying for mercy as her license
plate is broadcast to an online horde eager to hound her out of a job.
Everyone knows it can happen to them, so everyone shuts
down. The circle of trust narrows. Conversations — too easily recorded — shift
to encrypted messaging apps. For now. Until those get banned too for
interfering in efficient social credit markets.
For some time, conservatives, recognizing that we’re now
the counterculture, indulged in the delusion that we could opt out of all this.
We’d send our kids to schools that don’t teach all the woke stuff. We’d make
our friends at church, not at work, and take comfort that trust and openness
were still possible in communities of shared purpose. We’d vote our conscience,
because the ballot box was something no election could take from us.
And if ever our political organizing were impeded by
censorship — say, by the big tech giants — we could build our own platforms.
But the left and the corporations are challenging all of
this now. Your “conservative” social platform isn’t worth much when Amazon can
shut it down. Your vote may still be yours, but if your party is denied the
means to effectively organize by corporate monopolies, it’s not going to win.
Your church, well, you can still attend for now, but go to the wrong church and
you may not have a job in a few years.
Here’s the good news. The cancel culture agenda will only
succeed if we let it. We need live in fear only if we choose to say nothing. In
this time of testing, conservatives must not shrink back. We need to stand up
for the right of every American to be heard.
We need to stand up for the basic principles that join
all Americans together — the right to speak freely, to debate openly, and to
address our differences graciously without fear of being silenced or punished
for dissenting views.
I for one am not going to back down. My book will be
published, and I will continue to represent the people of my state without fear
or favor, whatever the left or the corporations say.
The powerful see in the present moment an opportunity to
consolidate their control over society and to squelch dissent. That means those
who believe in the First Amendment and the fundamental principles of American
liberty must now take a stand, while we still can.
Sen. Josh Hawley is a Republican representing Missouri.
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The Undeclared Civil War
By Rick Hayes | The Daily Hayes
Imagine if General Robert E. Lee's Army of Virginia
(assuming Americans still know who Robert E. Lee was) marched into Washington
D.C. and without a single shot being fired, he conquered the Capitol and
installed Jefferson Davis as President.
Although nobody died, and no buildings were destroyed,
could anyone argue against the reality that the United States was in the middle
of a civil war? But the fake propaganda media is doing exactly that today.
They continue to pretend that the United States had just completed a
legitimate democratic election process when what happened was the overthrow of
the Presidency.
If, after General Lee surrendered at Appomattox, the
southern newspapers wrote that the South had won the civil war, would that make
it true? Of course not. Today's media disinformation is no
different. In the same way, because the fake propaganda media says that Biden
is the President, it does not make it so. One could argue that the true President,
President Trump, is in exile in Florida.
Although a lot less-violent, the modern-day political
overthrow has serious consequences just as grave as any bloody battle fought in
the actual American Civil War.
The successfully stolen 2020 election was the most recent
part in a long line of unsuccessful coup attempts starting in 2016. It
signifies the beginning of an undeclared civil war designed to alter the
American way of life forever.
The new leftist administration will ignore the United
States Constitution and redistribute America's wealth to other parts of the
globe.
Although many more Americans respect the Constitution and
the rule of law, the left owns the system. By owning the system, i.e.,
mainstream media, social media, big tech, government, and entertainment, the
left, a much small group, can control patriotic Americans' lives, a much larger
group.
Unfortunately, what awaits Americans is more than just a
divided nation ruled by a foreign ideology not compatible with traditional
American values.
The inescapable facts based on Biden's recent executive
orders and his stated goals mean that Americans will soon say goodbye to many
individual freedoms. Self-defense, free speech, and the freedom to decide
how and where to travel will quickly be rights relegated only to history.
The greatest weapon in the new leftist socialist
administration's arsenal is the continued denial that they exist. To
deceive Americans, they maintain that the adverse changes are not happening and
chastise anyone who thinks otherwise.
The people of Germany, Russia, China, and Venezuela were
just as sure that fascists or communists would never take them over. But
they did and now history has a nasty way of repeating itself.
