The Rise and Coming Fall of the Pharma-Owned Authoritarian Left in the United States Social movements that demand conformity and intolerance of freedom of speech, an independent press, and gut-based hatred of individual rights cannot sustain themselves due to strategic flaws. James Lyons-Weiler The “Left” in America used to be represented as the umbrella party under which the disenfranchised could collect, welcome to protection from the storm of bigotry, hatred, and intolerance from (as liberals were fond of describing) racist, bible-thumping, uneducated conservatives. The Democratic Party was the party that represented labor against oppressive corporate greed. If you are a Democrat and you have not taken a close, objective look at what’s happened to your party, let me give you a mirror: Prior to COVID-19, the Democratic Party sold out to Big Pharma. Top-down party politics demanded support for the rejection of exemptions for vaccine mandates. The money was easy, and the Party acted ju...