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Professor Lopez and I discussed the current unrest on college campuses. Why do so many students today seem unable or unwilling to engage other points of view? Why do so many feel the need to retreat to “safe spaces” whenever they encounter a word or thought that “triggers” negative emotions? Why are they so incoherent? So hostile? So blindly obedient to leftist agendas? So divorced from reality? To explore these questions, listen in! Professor Lopez, author of Jephthah’s Daughters: Innocent Casualties in the War for Marriage ‘Equality’ has been targeted and harassed for the past several years by the LGBT lobby. This is not only because of Lopez’s stance against same-sex marriage, but because he has a compelling story of his own: He was raised by lesbians and identifies as bisexual. (He may also be the object of their scorn because he has been faithfully married to the mother of his children for 15 years.) The “diversity” bureaucrats at Cal State Northridge have worked tirelessly to concoct a case against Professor Lopez. The video clip below will give you a brief summary of Professor Lopez’s insights: You can also explore some of the related links on my site. Here’s a post on the program “Bonds that Matter” that Professor Lopez hosted at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library last year. And here’s a previous podcast with Prof Lopez and me on the parallels between the LGBT lobby’s tactics and Bolshevism. Also, here’s a brief review of mine of Jephthah’s Daughter’s. Please order your copy from Amazon today!

Full interview link below. https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/stella-morabito-technocratic-totalitarianism-the-impulse-to-conform-and-astroturf-mobs-versus-organic-protest-5385193

On April 4 I had the distinct honor and pleasure of being interviewed by Tucker Carlson about the subject of my book The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer. How ironic, then, that with Tucker’s dismissal from FOX News, our hour-long conversation–on the subject of silencing and censorship–was itself silenced. It may well have aired on the FOX Nation Show “Tucker Carlson Today” this past Tuesday, the day after he was gone from FOX. As a bit of consolation, I wrote up the experience for the Federalist. It includes my reaction to the speech Tucker gave just last Friday at Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner, which I had the honor of attending. It was such a profound and hopeful speech. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that his speech–delivered with such heartfelt passion –was one for the ages. Here’s something from it that all Americans should take to heart: “The more you tell the truth, the stronger you become. And the more you lie, the weaker and more terrified you become.” This is so true. The whole purpose of political censorship is to squash our willingness to speak truth. My Federalist essay (I don’t write the headlines!) is titled: I Taped a Show with Tucker on Censorship Right Before he Was Fired. Here’s an excerpt: I believe our discussion was critical to helping more people grasp the human dynamics that lead to the mass misery, loneliness, and dystopian policies we see all around us today. More people must understand that destructive agendas depend upon the human impulse to self-censor. When we shut up or lie about what we believe in hopes of “fitting in,” we give abundant oxygen to tyrannical agendas. But with the exit of Carlson, Fox News is a huge step closer to declaring that it’s completely on board with the media monopoly’s efforts to create the illusion of unanimity of thought. Such illusions are meant to tease out the conformity impulse by making us feel all alone in our views, and, therefore, less likely to express them. But the cancelling of my interview was merely collateral damage in a far bigger picture. In my opinion, Americans’ decades of obedience to political correctness prepared the ground for the tyranny we see around us today. If only we could better understand these dynamics and learn counter-strategies, then we’d be in a better position to disarm those who seek to march us into censorship and ignorance and misery. But I promise to keep talking about this!

In my recent interview with Professor Robert Oscar Lopez, we discuss parallels between the tactics and motives of the LGBT Lobby and the Bolsheviks in Russia a hundred years ago. Please listen by clicking here. The modus operandi of the LGBT lobby and the Bolsheviks are strikingly similar. But that’s the case with every power-grabbing scheme. A hundred years ago the Bolsheviks pretended to be the champion of the “workers.” Likewise, today statists call themselves the champions of gays and transgenders. It’s basically the same dynamic. The LGBT Lobby serves ultimately to consolidate power in the hands of the elite few. So what else do these movements have in common? The abolition of the autonomous family as the ultimate goal. Propaganda tactics that rely heavily on smear campaigns and cultivate the fear of becoming a non-person. Conformity of expression through obedience to political correctness. Replacement of free exchange of commerce and ideas with ironclad regulations and censorship Nomenklatura -- an elite clique in power -- rules over all and directs a mammoth bureaucracy The takeover of the media at the outset in order to control the narrative and silent dissenters That's just for starters.  And if the "Equality Act" is passed by Congress, you can bet that compliance will be enforced and dissent will be punished.  That's a censorship act window-dressed as non-discrimination.  It has nothing to do with protecting any minority demographic.  The minority demographic -- in this case gays, lesbians, transgenders -- are simply being used as pawns.  Their grievances are being used as a pretext to consolidate all power into the hands of an elite mob.  This is very much in keeping with the pattern of the Bolsheviks who cherry-picked winners and losers once they took on the mantle of "vanguard" -- or protector -- of the workers.  The Bolshevik mob never cared about the working class, except as a useful propaganda tool in their bid to grab power.  In the Soviet Union, those deemed "counter-revolutionary" would be labelled as "enemies of the people."  We see the same pattern today with the LGBT lobby.  And it will get much worse if the "Equality Act" goes into effect, giving the government the power to punish those it deems "anti-gay." So, at the end of the day, what have you got?  Answer:  a society ruled by elites, or a "nomenklatura."  Your currency is political connections that you "earn" through compliance with the mob.  That's how mammoth bureaucracies lock in power for their rulers.  Instead of a society based upon the free exchange of goods, services, and ideas, you end up with gatekeepers -- all up and down the bureaucratic ladder -- who make sure the only kind of currency in use is political compliance and connections. In this sort of power structure all totalitarian societies poison personal relationships.  They cultivate scarcity, which creates a nasty dog-eat-dog mentality.  They cultivate ignorance so that free thought is dimmed. It's a divide-and-conquer scheme in which people become separated as never before. As history has proven time and again in such cases, it is submission -- and not resistance -- that is truly futile.