Penn Jillette, from his Twitter account
Fuck Civility. Hyperbole, passion, and metaphor are beautiful parts of rhetoric. Marketplace of ideas can not be toned down for the insane.
But that’s exactly what our political ‘masters’ are planning – Limits on free speech to the point of anything they deem might make an insane person do something insane will find you in the pokey. How nice it will be to be able to arrest your opponents rather than have to debate them.
Right or left, this should chill you to the bone. This should make the blood of any American boil to the point where they start looking for tar and a pile of feathers, and not metaphorically. Some of these politicians are so tone deaf they didn’t get the message from the last election that the American populace is sick and tired of the nanny staters poking their noses into every facet of our lives.
We’ll argue over the 2nd until we’re blue in the face, but I don’t know many people who would stand for that kind of assault on the first amendment.