Heckler's Veto[0] in another form but the results are the same, silence differing opinion but now you have an excuse to commit violence against those who hold i

Heckler's Veto[0] in another form but the results are the same, silence differing opinion but now you have an excuse to commit violence against those who hold it or have others act on your behalf; this can include using government or employers. A very dangerous period we are entering when honest open debate is framed as anything such. We are walking right into it and worse many are find excuses for specific discussion points as warranting this behavior not fully understanding that once that genie is out of the bottle it may take a generation or more to put it back. The worst of it is that it is happening in newsrooms where groups want stories written specific ways and certain opinions must be silenced at all cost. This "moral majority" will go far beyond what many fear mongers thought a "religious right" could ever do because they do not inherent limits to the exercise of their authority or violence needed to administer it. You pretty much are bound for an authoritarian regime because democracy does not survive in silence. Will we have our own Reichstag fire[1], what form would it take? Pretty sure you can find quite a few examples [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler%27s_veto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler%27s_veto [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire