Radio host and political/cultural commentator on Fox News, Kevin McCullough wrote an editorial for Townhall.Com on 5/21/25, which I copied and pasted below and wish to comment on.
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Kevin McCullough | May 21, 2025
My response: When Kevin writes that Leftists cannot help themselves, that when they gain a sliver of power, their instinct is not to govern but control. In this case, in Maine they are going after a state legislator for speaking her mind.
We must have radically open free speech here in America and in any democracy or constitutional republic anywhere. Humans observe the world, and then concepts are born in their mind, based on their mind interacting with experienced perceptions of the sense data sent them from reality itself.
Once humans form concepts in their minds, out of that flows words and accompanying definitions to define and describe conscious thoughts arrived at. For people to think, flourish, grow and to gain knowledge, people must enjoy free speech in public to speak openly what they have come up with. This is how civilization grows. Any corporation, social group, legislative body, or bureaucracy which suppresses free speech should be regarded as immoral, unacceptable, and should be punished severely immediately socially, culturally, and legally.
We cannot grow, be free or civilized without radical free speech being the way of the land.
With voters, consumers, employees, and customers most or all becoming individuating supercitizens in the world, the sick human addiction to building tyranny at first opportunity in people living by acquiring the power of powerlessness over others, this universal and evil temptation can finally be thwarted victoriously in the public arena by lovers of liberty.
All are born corrupt and seek centralized power over others to control them, not to govern them. We cannot eradicate the natural human lust for tyrannical power over others, but we can grow a generation of adult individuating supercitizens, whose acquired, strengthened good natures and good wills, based on moral upbringing and personal free acceptance of taught morals, will no longer seek to be elites ruling and controlling others, and no longer will the masses tolerate any elite to control and rule them. This is the way, the only way, to effectively and more or less permanently ban tyranny from society socially, institutionally, politically and legally.
K: “Representative Laurel Libby, a duly elected lawmaker in Maine, dared to do what many parents, coaches, and young athletes across the country are already doing: she spoke truthfully and without apology about the unfairness of allowing biological males to compete in girls’ sports. For this, the Democrat-controlled House didn’t just debate her or disagree with her—they silenced her. Stripped her of committee roles. Banned her from floor debate. Blocked her right to vote on legislation. All because she refused to back down and kiss the ring of the transgender orthodoxy.
Let that sink in. An elected state representative was functionally erased from her position because she refused to lie.”
My response: What occurred disgracefully to Representative Laurel Libby in Maine is a forewarning as to what the postmodernist Progressive intend to inflict upon all Americans should they gain totalitarian grip on all Americans. There is no limit to how far these ruthless and cruel true believers in cultural Marxism will go.
And, again I urge the reader to accept that the members of any authoritarian, ideological movement, Left, Center or Right, secular, or theological, would treat a legal elected Representative as shabbily as the outrageous mistreatment as was visited by authoritarian zealots upon Laurel Libby.
K: “It took the highest court in the land—yes, the United States Supreme Court—to step in and temporarily restore her rights. And we should be grateful they did. But we should also be furious it was necessary.”
My response: Amen, we must enjoy radically open free speech, almost with no restrictions at all, and we cannot be a free people unless we enjoy strong free speech rights, and this right from God is the precondition to enjoy liberty, another natura right.
Liberty and free speech go together and to suppress one is to suppress both, and that cannot stand unchallenged by freedom loving people, for quickly the slippery slope to tyrannical control of society follows when free speech is restricted at all.
K: “Maine Democrats ignored the Constitution, the U.S. Department of Justice, and even the directives of the sitting president—who, to his credit, has stated that women’s sports should be protected. But to Maine Democrats, the law is just a nuisance. If it conflicts with their ideology, they simply ignore it.
This isn’t just political theater. This is authoritarianism dressed in blue-state respectability. It’s the kind of thing you expect from petty tyrants in banana republics, not American lawmakers. Yet here we are.
Let’s be crystal clear: Laurel Libby was punished not for misconduct, not for a crime, but for expressing an opinion—and a widely held one at that. The Left didn’t just want her quieted. They wanted her removed. Erased. Her district voiceless. Her voters disenfranchised.
This is what happens when political power is worshipped above principle. When identity politics is weaponized to muzzle dissent. And when party loyalty trumps the Constitution.”
My response: Amen, Kevin is completely correct; I can add nothing.
K: “Imagine what this country would look like had these people taken the White House. We came terrifyingly close. And make no mistake—if they had secured executive power in 2024, this sort of behavior wouldn’t be confined to Augusta. It would be Washington policy. They’d silence parents who question school boards. Jail protestors with the wrong politics. Redefine “misinformation” to mean “anything that hurts our feelings.”
Don’t believe me? Look at what they already do. They love to abort in utero and call it “healthcare.” They love to separate kids from their parents and call it “gender-affirming care.” They love to brainwash them in public schools and call it “equity.” They’ll shut your mouth in the name of “tolerance” and steal your vote in the name of “justice.”
The Left doesn’t care about your family, your values, your faith, or your future. The only sacred thing in their world is power—raw, absolute, weaponized power.”
My response: These brutal tactics of domestic suppression of citizen liberty, going on right here in America, is quite consistent with the totalitarian drive for power which motivates a mass movement like cultural Marxism, or any such ideological movement.
K: “But here’s the good news: they’re not unstoppable. When one woman with courage stands up and refuses to bow, she can shake their whole crooked machine. Laurel Libby did that. And it matters—not just in Maine, but across America. She reminded us that truth is still dangerous to tyrants, and that our Constitution still has teeth when we’re brave enough to invoke it.
So now it’s our turn. We must raise our voices—not just for Libby, but for every parent, teacher, coach, and child being told to sit down and shut up. We must defend not just women’s sports, but women’s dignity. We must demand accountability from those who trample free speech in the name of progress.
Because in the end, this fight isn’t just about biology or sports or one brave representative in Maine. It’s about who gets to speak in America. And if the Left has their way, the answer will be: only them.
That’s why we must shatter their iron fist. Not with violence. Not with vengeance. But with something far more powerful: courage, conviction, and the Constitution.
They believe nothing is sacred except their ability to dominate every institution, rewrite every rule, and silence every voice of dissent. But they forgot one thing.
The American people still believe in liberty.
And we’re not going anywhere.”
My response: Kevin is eloquent; I admire his position condemning the power-grabbing which animates American Progressive Fascism, and I will answer his clarion call to withstand it.
Let me digress for a minute, and then I will tie my digression back into how precious and vital liberty and free speech are to maintaining democracy, and keeping people happy, prosperous, and progressing.
I believe one should give what one can to charitable causes, but I give thousands of dollars to gun rights organizations per year, and a few hundred dollars to food shelves, give blood at Red Cross, am a union steward in my Local 70 at work, etc.
My presupposition is supporting liberty-oriented nonprofits is morally superior to giving to charities and churches (these too are worthy causes to finance), because if we can secure for each citizenship near maximum liberty, coupled with personal self-realizing and dutiful acceptance of her supcitizenship obligation as a responsible adult, we can create great per capita wealth which renders many few people in poverty, and even churches would be well if voluntarily funded. Through liberty, individualism and moral egoism, charitable needs and the common good are best and most efficiently met.
Gun rights organizations help us protect our 2A rights, one of our Bill of Rights which makes all other rights defensible by citizen armed against tyrannical government. If we protect our rights and freedoms, then liberty is sturdy here, and our free speech rights will be protected and well defended.
As an egoist moralist, and firm supporter of individualism as the sovereign Western idea, I insist that we need to champion the concept that individualism become the sovereign idea of people around the world, a global, axiomatic avowal.
My claim is that individualism and individuation, combined with supercitizenship for each armed adult in a capitalist, constitutional republic, fosters full liberty for the masses. Armed, united liberty-loving and liberty-supporting individual citizens get the nation free and keep the nation free by following the power of powerfulness model of power sharing.
Humans are born basically evil, which means they are selfless and self-hating, without proper pride and veridical self-esteem. Consequentially, they prefer and are made sicker, crueler, violent, savage, barbaric and supportive of or at least tolerating tyrannical power structure of elite against and over the masses.
Groupism as nonindiviudating, group-living and group-identifying, where the masses are morally, educationally, institutionally, and culturally trained to live for others, altruistic morality: this is the sick model of power sharing the power of universal powerlessness (even the ruling elite are enslaved though they are more powerful within their powerlessness-power sharing arrangement system, the power of powerlessness.
Nonindividuating citizens, whose moral code is altruism, masochistically enjoy or are at least addicted to need to be abused, while sadistically, when relatively empowered, enjoying or being addicted to abusing those less fortunate, less powerful, of the wrong creed, skin color or holding discredited value systems. Free speech is eliminated, and tyranny, injustice, poverty, disease, filth, class systems and human rights abuses follow.
Ideological members of mass movements like postmodernism/Progressivism are of a totalitarian mindset and they wish to control everyone and everything.
This is my justification for supporting Kevin in objecting to the excesses and malevolence, inherent to Progressive Fascism.
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