From The CATO Institute:

When Republicans were in power, dissent was the highest form of patriotism.  Now that Democrats are in power, obedience is the highest form of patriotism.

While a right-wing dictatorship might demand your obedience under pain of death, a left-wing dictatorship demands unity of thought, hence 1984‘s Thought Police.

This just plain old pegs my hypocritical meter. When the Right has a position on something, the Left screams and shouts and drowns out any opposition to their views. When the Left has a view, there is no discussion and it’s simply the Left is correct, and that’s the end of the discussion. Anybody who disagrees by even a sliver is demonized and destroyed personally, rather than actually discuss the issue. I can’t recall a discussion with a hard left person that didn’t hinge his agrument on a hook made out of blue smoke and mirrors.

Example: I got into a comment discussion with a couple of Left wingers, who proclaimed that “The police are there to protect us from criminals and bad people.” When I produce case law ( SCOTUS South v. Maryland, 1856) that the police have no obligation to protect individual citizens, their job is to insure that there is order and the laws of the government are not broken, they go, “but…but…it says To Protect and Serve on the sides of their cars!” And I can’t shake them off that position. Their world view is the world view, and that’s just how it should be.

Lord save us from people who would save us from ourselves, whether we like it or not.