2 liberal icons: America now on a path to 'totalitarianism'
2 liberal icons: America now on a path to 'totalitarianism'
... In their discussion on Kennedy's "Truth" podcast, the son of the late liberal icon said he sees himself and Wolf as "kindred spirits" who are perplexed about why fellow liberals can't see what is happening now in America.
He noted that liberal scholars grew up reading the great dystopian writers of the 20th century, including Orwell and Huxley, who "predicted exactly what we are going through now."
"It just felt like we were all on the same page, and it is very, very strange to me, almost inexplicable, how all these people who have been friends of mine for life, and people I have admired, and people whose writings I read, have acquiesced to something that clearly is a path to totalitarianism," he told Wolf in the podcast, which was published March 8.
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"And here today we're living in a world where you have government officials who are censoring criticism of pharmaceutical products," said Kennedy, who is known for his anti-vaccination activism.
Wolf said she agreed with Kennedy's assessment that liberals today largely are blind to the erosion of constitutional liberties.
"I have that same feeling that we are in a club that started out with millions and millions of people, and now there are, like, five or six liberals I can count," she said.
Wolf said that as she sounds the alarm about the threat to the U.S. Constitution, the only people affirming her are "libertarians and people who are on the right."
"And the left," she said, "is like, 'Shut up, sit down. You're killing grandma. Don't give aid to the enemy. How can you talk to the conservatives? This is not the time for freedom. This is the time for a kind of communitarian self-censorship.'
"It's absolutely devastating," Wolf said. MORE
