By Matthew Hayward  1/19/2024 updated 10/16/2025 Gaslighting or projection? When individuals are labeled “fascist,” banned from platforms, removed from ballots, or intimidated for speaking at school board meetings, it is worth asking who the real authoritarians are. This is not about disagreement; it is about control. The modern left and right both weaponize language to silence opposition. “Fascist,” “extremist,” and “bootlicker” have become political slurs used not to describe behavior but to delegitimize thought. Ironically, those who shout “fascism” the loudest often exhibit its defining traits: censorship, intimidation, and the suppression of dissent. The same pattern appears with words like equality and inclusivity. Noble ideas on the surface, yet often twisted into tools of conformity. When inclusion demands ideological purity, it ceases to be inclusion. When diversity excludes differing opinions, it becomes tyranny disguised as virtue. True liberty requires that we j...

 By Matthew Hayward In the world of tomorrow, the concept of gender was a distant memory. The government had long ago declared that gender was a social construct and that it was unfair to categorize individuals based on their biology. Society had evolved into a utopia where individuals were not judged based on their gender but on their merits. But this utopia had a dark side. The government had become the ultimate authority, controlling every aspect of people's lives. They enforced their laws through surveillance, censorship, and cancel culture. Citizens who failed to conform to the government's ideals were ostracized, their lives ruined by a single mistake. The younger generation, born into this world, had embraced the government's ideals with fervor. They quickly called out anyone who disobeyed the government's strict rules. Social media had become a battleground where people fought to prove their loyalty to the government. One day, a controversy erupted when a biolog...