"Toleration" - The Camel's Nose under the Tent

... How much threatening change one is willing to tolerate is a challenge that tests one's commitment to his principles and measures the reservoirs of one's courage...

... Americans now find themselves required to worship the God of Equality... There is no "toleration" for "inequality" dissenters, as one of science's greatest geniuses, James Watson, was to discover...

Instead, "toleration" has converted to a catch phrase for the multi-culturalist in twenty-first century America, now at the breaking point...

One might recall Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016 referring to Trump voters as a "basket of deplorables, irredeemables, thankfully not part of America." Her slur evoked for those paying attention the "concept of the political," Carl Schmitt's "friend-enemy" distinction. She was signaling "no mercy," much less toleration for the "deplorables" if she were to grasp the reins of power...

Another paradox is that of typically Left-liberals, who urge toleration and boast of their tolerance for others, refuse to tolerate homophobes, transphobes, sexists, racists, as they label their "enemies" - a good portion of the entire world - which makes them among the most intolerant people on the planet...

For the Left "hatred" has been deformed to mean "oppose" or "disagree." So, for example, if you are opposed to gay marriage, you "hate" gay people. In similar fashion the Left has contorted "intolerance" to mean "disapproval."...

Intolerance as disapproval works for the Left as it is another arrow in their quiver of moral coercion that breaks down the existing moral consensus and order...

Toleration as the Left pushes it is a practice that always means losing for the Right. It is the transmission belt that seems to drive America inexorably leftward. Today's Left-leaning moderate was yesterday's conservative; tepid opposition turns to tepid support and then turns mainstream. The center shifts Left and the radical fringe pushes on to break down new barriers leaving "conservatives" to play catch up.

To survive, the Right must abandon toleration as it is understood and practiced by the Left and operate with these three maxims.