An erosion of support for FREE SPEECH on the right and on the left

   It is only political common sense for activists on the Left to respect " free speech " tradition, not to disrupt right wing speakers, not try to silence even the most Far Right voices. The people willing to speak for the have-nots in this society rarely have easy access to the means of public communication- an access taken for granted by the corporate elite. So it is only the force of public opinion- a public that truly believes in free speech- that gives socialist candidates, antiwar candidates, even right-wing third party candidates the " opening " to get out their anti-establishment views. And the TRUTH itself is subversive. Would a very well informed public tolerate another year of this phony " war on terrorism " - in reality a war to make the world safe for the New Colonialism ? Would working class soldiers be willing to kill and be killed for Wilsonian blather ?
There has been a erosion of support for simple FREE SPEECH RIGHT on the left too. Nothing can be more illiberal than liberal " political correctness ". Professors are losing their jobs over the pseudo-right not to be offended ? I guess the old search for the truth is brutal on over-sensitive, petty-bourgeois neurotics.
A democratic Socialist myself I laugh at ACLU liberals who think the PRAYER ON THE WALL is an intentional insult to the godless. I am sure working class intellectuals did not invent identity politics-or the vicious New Atheism with its chorus of Islamophobes.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to ALL-even to all on the Far Right