The intolerance toward other people’s ideas and the refusal to “listen” to other points of view as seen on the campuses of our colleges is “creeping” into society at large. People are not listening to the desire of many of our citizens to abide by current law to keep the country safe from an ideology that has caused havoc for our country since its inception. Nor are they allowing citizens to make decisions in their personal lives. Many demand “rights” for some that take away the right of others to make their own personal decisions (paying for other citizen’s abortions, requiring health care, EPA decisions that affect property rights, requiring people to do business with others who support social issues they personally oppose).
Demonstrators address concerns about social issues and show personal animosity toward the president. Under our system, social issues (including one’s health care choices) should be the purview of the individual citizens unless there is blatant discrimination against a protected class (not a new group of people who think they are entitled to “protection”). In addition, the current administration is denigrated for actions that are within the law and have been implemented in the past by other administrations without concern from the left or the media.
As previously neutral institutions in our country (education, media) adopt and forward a progressive agenda, I believe the fear of a dictatorship/fascism seems more likely to come from the left -- not from the right as many demonstrators state on their placards.
