A new poll from Pew Research shows that a growing number of Americans, mostly people on the left, no longer support First Amendment protections for free speech.

This is not surprising if you have been paying attention to what has been happening on college campuses for the last several years. Progressive students today think nothing of shouting down campus speakers with whom they disagree.

This type of thinking has now bled over into our national politics as Democrats regularly seek to silence their opponents.

Alex Berenson writes at Substack:

The scariest poll you’ll see this summer

A majority of Americans – and an overwhelming number of Democrats – no longer support First Amendment protections for free speech.

The government should restrict “false” information online, even if doing so blocks people from “publishing or accessing information,” 55 percent of Americans said in a large poll released Thursday. Only 42 percent disagreed.

The antipathy to free speech represents a sea change in attitudes in just five years. It is driven by a powerful new hostility to First Amendment rights on the left.

In an identically worded poll five years ago, Democrats and Republicans favored free speech online by roughly 3 to 2 margins. Today, Republicans still favor the First Amendment by about that much. But Democrats have turned against it by even more.

The support for government suppression of “false” speech clearly violates the First Amendment, which does not distinguish between “false” and legal speech, or online or traditional platforms for speech and debate.

How could we expect anything different when Democrats see Adam Schiff as a leader?

Democrat Adam Schiff is mad that certain online platforms aren't censoring free speech as much as he thinks they shouldpic.twitter.com/gT15PdoRkW

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 26, 2023

That’s just one example. There are many more just like it.

We cannot allow the left to destroy our God-given rights.

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Former congressman and presidential candidate, Dr. Ron Paul, recently pointed out that the establishment fearmongering over COVID and climate change are exactly the same.

Paul was reacting to a story about dancing nurses who made viral videos during the pandemic, who are now doing the same thing but about climate change.

Paul says:

“I was asked which one was worse, this distortion about the mandates for COVID or the climate change people? Which one has accomplished more and why are they different? That sort of thing. They’re exactly the same thing!”

Watch below:

Ron Paul on COVID and Climate Change: They're Identical in Manipulating Public Opinion

“They're exactly the same thing! It's manipulation of public opinion, to try to convince people that you better be scared because you need us.”@RonPaul pic.twitter.com/2XIU42uvQ0

— UngaTheGreat (@UngaTheGreat) July 26, 2023

This is the Zero Hedge article referenced in the video:

Dancing COVID Nurses That Supported Draconian Mandates Switch To Climate Change

Perhaps one of the most unsettling narrative relationships during the covid pandemic lockdowns was the assertion by various governments, think-tanks and media pundits that the mandates weren’t just good for “stopping the spread,” they were also good for “saving the environment” from what they claim will be inevitable Apocalyptic climate change. While the covid agenda has all but disappeared thanks to millions of people and half the states in the US rejecting the restrictions, climate hysteria is still alive and well.

One of the most obnoxious trends in covid propaganda was the constant TikTok dance videos. Dancing politicians, dancing talk show hosts and dancing nurses all telling us to comply while frolicking around like maniacs. Well, it’s not over, because the dancing covid nurses are back, and now they’re here to tell us that accepting carbon controls is just as important as the mandates.

Beyond the numerous question on how nurses managed to have time to make so many group TikToks if the hospitals were “overrun” with patients dying of covid as the media asserted for the first year of the pandemic, we must also ask: If they lied about the effectiveness of the mandates, why should we listen to them about climate change?

And here is the ridiculous nurse video:

Ron Paul is absolutely right about this. As usual.

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