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WHY THE RIGHT BECAME OBSESSED WITH FREEDOM OF SPEECH

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WHY THE RIGHT BECAME OBSESSED WITH FREEDOM OF SPEECH

It used to be a core leftist issue, so what gives?

Adam Golding
May 18, 2021
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WHY THE RIGHT BECAME OBSESSED WITH FREEDOM OF SPEECH

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It used to be a core leftist issue, so what gives?

Well, let me tell you a story:

It's supposed to be 'one person, one vote', even though one rich person can have many dollars. But you can vote with your wallet and you can also *buy votes*: the person who spent the most usually wins...

So normally, we have limits on 'campaign spending' to level the playing field: otherwise *the rich control elections*. BUT, *the limits were removed* in 2010. How? It's called "Citizen's United":

They argued money was speech, and speech was free, so limiting campaign spending to let the poor have a voice was actually unconstitutional *because* the rich deserved 'freedom of speech' with their money.

(This is called 'negative liberty'...)

Don't be gaslit--THE LEFT NEEDS FREEDOM OF SPEECH NOW MORE THAN EVER--Be a free-speech-absolutist like Chomsky and insist we also need so-called 'positive liberty' when it comes to speech, the form of freedom America always forgets: without financial support, 'free' speech is too expensive for the poor--that freedom's still far off so push for it MORE, TODAY.

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