How to prevent sacred cows from becoming golden idols

If you're unable to criticize the institutions and their leaders you like the most then you have no right to criticize the institutions and their leaders you like the least. Holding everything we value to the highest possible standards though intense scrutiny is the only way to prevent our most sacred cows from becoming golden idols!

A little bit of Canadian history on the beginnings of liberalism in Canada during the Mackenzie-Papineau Rebellion of 1837-38