The thread topic is socialism, but trolls have changed the subject matter. I will return to socialism in a later post.
Megan Kelly's interview with Alex Jones was an interesting example of how our first amendment rights become topics of confusion on both sides of the political spectrum. I understand why the death of children touches and reminds us too much of the evil in America and the world, but face it we must as some believe the hate that comes from Alex Jones and the alt right in America.
"Short of waterboarding him, I don’t know what more Kelly could have done to expose Jones’ dark methods. She was needlessly defensive in her presentation, acknowledging that some people thought the segment shouldn’t have been broadcast because it would increase Jones’ profile. But as she pointed out, Jones isn’t going away, and his audience is growing. What’s more, Jones “has the ear of our president,” and spurious things InfoWars says have a way of getting repeated by his phone-pal President Donald Trump, who has saluted the InfoWars host in the past. She didn’t take Jones down, but really, who could have in a newsmagazine segment? But she did do a credible job of exposing his lies. Give her a B+."
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/18/megyn-kelly-pantses-alex-jones-215279
"Liberals believe individuals should doubt their own truths and consider fairly and open-mindedly the truths of others. This is at the very heart of liberalism. Liberals understand, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once observed, that "time has upset many fighting faiths." Liberals are skeptical of censorship and celebrate free and open debate." Geoffrey R. Stone