Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds

Michael Knowles is nothing short of a genius. Both his diction and clarity of thought - as well as his numerous cited sources - have so ingrained a deeper sense of love for God and country in me that he has so moved me from being right of center to a sound conservative. If you at all seek the truth about our fair country's illustrious founding and how we can reclaim that glory while trying to navigate and eliminate the cesspool it is becoming, starting here would not be a bad idea.

Well the average I.Q. is being shown through Matthew of people on the left. This book isn't about how "you can't say anything". No where in the book or even the free summary does it state that. This book starts off about political correctness and goes to how that is changing everything around us. Even our freedoms from the constitution, I.E. free speech. Which if you've paid any attention to the world today it's true. It's not even a left or right issue, it's a common sense issue. Kathy Griffen almost lost everything from telling one bad joke. You have people who's lives get completely destroyed or changed not by causing physical harm, but by merely stating one thing that could be offensive. Yet we had a politician out there harassing a jury saying "if there is no justice, we will not let there be peace in the streets" with no punishment. Another note the book makes, politicians seem to be the only people who have any sort of immunity to being censored. Except if you're a republican.

An observation: Theoretically, it should be relatively easy for conservatives and liberals/progressives to leave each other alone. You guys generally live in different kinds of places, exist in different kinds of social spaces, and engage in different kinds of collective social action. Michael Knowles, a middle-aged Catholic from the East Coast, has more in common with a Southwestern Protestant preacher like Robert Jeffress than he does with his fellow New York Catholics - as an example. And yet, they don't leave each other alone. In some ways, Knowles actually has more in common with, like, San Francisco atheists than with East Coast Catholics, because Knowles sees liberals' freedom to do their thing as a threat to conservatives' analogous freedom. If progressives can invite drag queens to the library, he suggests, then conservatives won't be able to venerate Reagan in the university. Politics, at least for Knowles, is a primitive game of King of the Hill, in which the winners make the rules and the losers always get screwed. (No offense.) Is this book some turning point in the political discourse? Probably not. Presumably, its insights could be found in abundance on AM radio or YouTube. (No offense.) Finally, the book itself is a souvenir, an unpersuasive (no offense) token of the reader's existing political identity. It doesn't even function to persuade tolerant conservatives to become intolerant, or optimistic rightists to become paranoid and cranky, although that's the thesis in which Knowles wraps this tome. It's literally another Leftist Tears tumbler or MAGA hat, another goody for people who think merch and swag can win the culture war. (No offense.) Even the blurbs, from other symbiotes of the Daily Wire (no offense), are a comedic performance of identitarian credulity, an echo chamber in its purest form. Not only will this book not capture the persuadable imagination, it may not even catch the persuadable eye. It's a burden, an embarrassment, to the very conservative project it claims to represent. (No offense.) So... thanks, I guess?