Most of the revolutionaries in 1917 Russia never imagined Lenin and Stalin's final product either (read Darkness at Noon), but the fact is that history has constantly proven that when you allow ambitious men to create massive governments, what you get is an Orwellian nightmare.
Consistently in High School and College. While I will grant you that I had some very good professors who were "liberals" and who encouraged free exchange of ideas as long as they could be backed up, I had others that would prohibit anything that would challenge their brainwashing. The media runs far more slanted and uniformed pieces about guns than I can keep up with.I haven't run into too much from the left that involves limiting speech or expression (unless you're talking about overturning People's United?). I'm curious as to what you mean?
Here is where we will both agree. The Conservative/Liberal paradigm is inaccurate and inconsistent. While I may still be registered a Republican, I certainly no longer consider myself a Republican for a variety of reasons. I am however now more than ever a single issue voter largely, and that single issue is guns, and I am seeing far more attacks coming from the left than the right.Anyway, looking to the comments section of any given website for rational and even-handed discourse is like expecting a meth addled howler monkey to give a dissertation on philosophy. Both of the major parties suffer from gross hypocrisies.
Our two party system needs to go. American political thought is far more complex than either party would have us believe. It's in their best interests to maintain existing power structures, but those power structures restrain effective political expression.