by Robert M. Traxler
The cancel culture has seeped into the fabric of our nation, to even include the Town Broadcast. Ranger Rick was cancelled; what and who are next?
History has shown us that the fascists and other socialist movements did not need to censor the media — the media censored itself openly and willingly, happily and with vigor, to support the glorious socialist people’s revolution.
Ranger Rick states that he resigned as the censorship was out of line; the management will say his actions were to out of step with the truth and needed to be edited. Whom you believe will depend not on facts, but how you feel about the sanctity of the First Amendment. The canceling of Ranger Rick, voluntary or involuntary, is but one more episode in a long line of people canceled for anti-revolutionary thoughts and acts.
In a state with no Bill of Rights, it is a bit easier to manage the message, so the left is out to not only destroy our history, but to teach that the Constitution, along with the Bill of Rights, are products of a, wait for it… a racist, sexist society, a product of evil white people that is void of any redeeming qualities and needs to be canceled.
When did it become acceptable, even cheered, to judge all people of any identity by the group? When did it become acceptable to judge a newborn child a racist at the moment of birth? In the name of all things holy, what are we doing? Spreading hate and discontent is the new favorite sport of the American left; the left is even condemning Dr. Martin Luther King as a racist. Folks, you can’t make this stuff up, and it is scary as hell.
Censorship has always been rationalized as controlling anti-revolutionary and counterproductive behavior; capitalists, Jews, royalty, the rich, minorities of all kinds are evil and need to be canceled in the name of whatever the current glorious revolution wanted to target. The current group to be vilified in this revolution is old white men, living and dead, and the movement is being led by Senator Bernard Sanders, a rich old white man — go figure.
Calls for our flag to be replaced as it is a symbol of (one more time) racism are coming in from the socialist movement. It is the flag under which the wife and I, our parents and millions of Americans of all races, sexes and creeds served, and which draped the coffins of our honored dead (well honored by some). It is said to be a symbol of racism, more so than the Stars and Bars, the confederate battle flag, according to Macy Gray, speaking for most on the left. To say that the socialist movement is out of control and lacking any semblance of rationality is true, however saying it may get you cancelled.
Our media and political leaders are terror stricken of the cancel culture that has called for the banning of conservative outlets from cable and on the internet, Fox News and Newsmax among them. Free speech is not so free in a socialist nation.
So just where is the traditional American left? Canceled by the radicals as too passive and contributing to (you called it) a racist society. The traditional left has been driven underground in defilade, blind and deaf to what is happening to the First Amendment, lacking the intestinal fortitude to challenge the radicals and complicit by their silence. Hell is indeed freezing over as the traditional liberals are becoming more and more anti- free speech.
For the past few years, I have been a bit reserved in my outrage over what is happening to our nation. I could be reserved as Ranger Rick, who stated loud and proud in his objections to Socialist policy. Ranger Rick will not write for this publication any more; I will endeavor to fill the void he left, until I too am censored to the point that no choice is left but to resign.
Time will tell. My opinion.
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