Why? Where does the anger of 40 years or more of being ridiculed for speaking common sense go? How long can you shit on anyone and expect them to take it with equanimity? How rationally can you expect them to adopt your positions when your only argument is shouting them down and insulting them?
The vicious tactics of the Left can and have achieved silence among many, but they have not bought agreement. They don’t debate. They don’t negotiate. So the only persuasive force they can wield is getting physical power over their opponents, and beating them with it, in the same manner cavemen once beat each other with cudgels. The essence of their strategy appears to be getting Political Correctness the force of law.
And can we not see something like a Cultural Revolution on the horizon? Are todays students really that different than those of Maoist China? Are they reflective? Inner directed? Capable of exercising independence of conscience? No, they are none of these things. They are completely unable to recognize that genuine compassion and viciousness are incompatible, and that the only ones capable of reconciling them are those who are interacting with ideas and not actual human beings; who are using an ideology to form a tribe based upon Other-directed violence, which is the oldest game in the human biological playbook. It is atavistic, and should be recognized as such, but of course that would require a return to reason.
So we see everyone on the Left saying vicious things about Scalia, in a demonstrable COMPLETE lack of understanding as to why decent people defend the Constitution. They conflate civil rights with the expansion of an omnipotent and omnipresent government, when in fact virtues like respect, peaceful disagreement and coexistence, and the like, are negotiated not by the government, but by people, and that to the extent the government gets in the middle, it delays the process.
You can always point guns at peoples heads. Violence works for a time. But it has a shelf life, and violence breeds violence. Trump is the electoral expression of a vast rage which dim-witted narcissists cannot comprehend because they are not capable of even the rudiments of empathy, despite their obsession with “helping people”. We are breeding vicious children, packs of wild dogs, controlled by the whistles of propaganda and situational conformity, and as Malcolm McDowell recently said, we are not all that far from a Clockwork Orange. Such pride the children of the “Love” generation must take in their accomplishments.