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Once again, a leading Leftist has displayed a taste for authoritarianism and the silencing of dissent. Speaking at Georgetown University on Thursday, Hillary “Don’t Count Me Out for 2024” Clinton gave what seemed at first glance to be an impassioned plea for the free exchange of ideas, as she decried the fact that in “today’s environment,” people “don’t even want to hear things we disagree with.” On closer inspection, however, it is clear that what Hillary was really advocating was blind trust in the authorities, one of the chief foundations of any authoritarian regime.
At an event on the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that largely ended the strife in Northern Ireland, Hillary opined that “the information ecosystem in which we live demands so much quick response, often totally unthought. It creates so much insulting, threatening rhetoric aimed at people who are trying to do hard things.” She was speaking about her hubby’s widely criticized decision to authorize a visa for Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. “You do not make peace with your friends,” the would-be president declared.
That was fair enough, but Hillary went on to issue a cleverly worded call for what amounted to blind trust in our Leftist moral superiors. What we need to do, you see, is just get out of our comfort zones and stop being so intolerant of views that differ from our own: ”
You do not negotiate with people you already agree with. It is sometimes difficult in today’s environment for people to want to make the effort, let alone take the risk, to get out of their own comfort zones,” she said. “We don’t even want to hear things we disagree with. We don’t want to hear different opinions from people who we have already concluded are outside the pale of our comfort zone.”
See, when our leaders are people we have “already concluded” that we disagree with, and they offer “different opinions,” we should just accept them. Trust the Dear Leader!
Hillary added: “You cannot run a society, let alone make peace for long, if that is your ongoing attitude. ‘I have nothing to learn from this person. I do not see him/her as a fellow human being. There is no reason for us to talk.’”
The irony here is that it is the dominant Left in America today that regards patriots in exactly the manner that Hillary describes, but Leftists are not those she had in mind. She claimed to be talking about Vladimir Putin, saying: “That is what we see happening in Ukraine today.” She asserted that “Russian aggression” is “aimed at dehumanizing the Ukrainian people: They are not worthy of existing so why should anybody care whether they are bombed into oblivion?”
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Hoi Polloi says
Why should HRC care if citizens who live along the border (not Martha’s Vineyard, of course) are being bombed into oblivion by the illegal onslaught? Or US citizens’ trust in US electoral processes bombed into oblivion? Or the US budget and its monetary system? Or small businesses during covidity? Or children at peace with their birthed gender? Or anyone who worked to counter racism but is, due to democrat proclamation, an original sin racist? Or who actually did build that? Or, or, or.
You failed to install her on demand and must pay. Pay through Zelensky, that is, so she can pretend she and hers didn’t steal it from you and yours.
somehistory says
she’s such an ignorant goon, she doesn’t realize she’s pointing her finger right back at herself. or if she does realize, she’s too much of a hypocrite t admit it, even to herself.
She doesn’t consider anyone who disagrees with her as having any rights or of any importance. Aren’t we all “deplorable” in her wicked eyes?
More people should hear the recording of this wicked witch when she mocked the poor child who was raped by the client of this evil creature. She laughed at the poor girl and did everything she could to see that the rapist went free.
h clinton is not worth the dirt that sticks to her shoes. She’s a rotten tree producing rotten fruit and sewing evil seed. She will reap one day and it will be according to her sowing.
somehistory says
sowing evil seed. ah, the loveliness of error keeps me somewhat humble.
Keith O says
Killary only cares about herself, her power, her validity and her bank balance. Nothing else.
David M says
Let her run again, I want to see her lose another Presidential election.
Keith O says
And if the unthinkable happens?????
James Lincoln says
100% correct, Keith.
David M says
If Hillary did actually become President we would have WW3, as stated by Russia.
tim gallagher says
No doubt Hillary Clinton would be one of the authoritarian, fascist left who would want everybody to just fall in line with all the leftist agenda, no matter how idiotic and destructive most of their agenda is. I suppose that if the electorate has voted the left wingers into power in a democracy, then you have to put up with the left wing clowns until you get the chance to vote them out, which is the situation here in Australia at the moment, but you can at least criticise and oppose the idiocy of the left wing wankers’ agenda.
Keith O says
Tim, the big problems we have here is a totally corrupt Lib/Nats or an inept Labor government who are behind the eight ball trying to fix the crap they were left with.
I don’t support either party/ideology, I only hope we can get a gumbyment that the will of the masses for the benefit of the people as a whole.
I live in hope!
tim gallagher says
Yes, Keith O, we have to keep hoping. At least we do get to vote and try to help the sort of policies that we support get a run, unlike the poor buggers there in China and other such countries run by dictators, to say nothing of all Muslim countries where that barbaric load of rubbish, islam, will always be imposed on everybody. That, to me, is the main thing. I have to say that, for all the problems we face, Australia is a bloody good place to live. It might go down the drain, but during my 72 years living in Australia, it has been a good place to live compared to so many other crappy places in this sorry world.
Westman says
Hilary: “That is what we see happening in Ukraine today.” She asserted that “Russian aggression” is “aimed at dehumanizing the Ukrainian people: They are not worthy of existing so why should anybody care whether they are bombed into oblivion?”
“What we need to do, you see, is just get out of our comfort zones and stop being so intolerant of views that differ from our own: ”
“You do not negotiate with people you already agree with. It is sometimes difficult in today’s environment for people to want to make the effort, let alone take the risk, to get out of their own comfort zones,…”
Does Hilary realize that she just contradicted herself? The slaughter of Ukranians could be stopped by the US hosting negotiations with Ukraine and Russia instead of using Ukraine to the last Ukranian soldier to “weaken” Russia. Apparently, China will fill the statesman role, further diluting the statesman image of the US.
Ukraine will lose everything if this war isn’t stopped. Our own US goverment and media have both been lying and working from unconfirmed information about what is happening to the Ukranian military; a military which is slowly losing. After Bakhmut it will be only too obvious.
Hilary has enough yes-people about her that she doesn’t realize that she has a personality problem that makes her unlikable. Calling half the population, “deplorables” and insinuating that a college education produces superiority, was, and is, fatal to her ambition as POTUS,
Trouble says
If she or whomever she represents had control there would be no “information ecosystem” only an “information echo chamber”.
OLD GUY says
Hillary is a dirt bag.
Andrew says
I have to wonder if Hitlery Clinton thought the people of Libya were worthy of existing when she had NATO bomb the living crap out of that country even though Libya did NOTHING to against any NATO country for such actions to be taken, and now look at the state of Libya thanks to Mrs Clinton.
No wonder Bill was shagging all those other women.
E T says
She should stay home, bake some cookies and shut her mouth.