The left is today more theocratic than the far fringes of the Christian fundamentalists, especially in terms of the wish to regulate political speech. This shows an extreme lack of confidence on the left's part, that rational argumentation could lead to decisions in their favor. It is a public confession that they do not believe that reason and morals are on their side.

I think your observations is quite perceptive, and I couldn't agree with you more. Not to drop obvious analogies, but evil has to work harder and be stronger in order to win against good. Consider all the things you have to keep straight to sell a lie, for example. You also have to silence voices who might say otherwise. Even a tiny amount of free speech can cause evil to lose it's power. So wrong people -- if they won't change direction, and can't tolerate dissent -- tend towards totalitarianism.

As you have observed.

I'd say that evil, like a stage magician, needs more misdirection, more darkness all around the point of misdirected focus, and has to live in fear of truth. Good can let people look at it, or come to it, from any direction.

"Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."