I should add to my reflections here and here: This talk of a “war on Christmas” in the U.S. trivializes the all-too-real oppression of Christians in such places as Burma, China and North Korea. No one is preventing Christians in the U.S. from worshipping as they please. This country, I might add, is being (mis)governed by a born-again Christian.
Likewise, to those on the left asking “Is it fascism yet?”, I’d say, consult a person who’s actually lived under fascism. I absolutely agree that we need to be vigilant about civil liberties; the NY Times’s belated story on unauthorized NSA surveillance is only the latest chilling sign. But look around the world — at, say, Turkey’s attempt to silence the novelist Orhan Pamuk — and it’s clear that dissenters’ rights in the U.S. could be in far worse shape.
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