Posted on 05/06/2020 2:47:09 PM PDT by JV3MRC
MSNBC commentator Anand Giridharadas attacked Americans’ obsession with freedom on Wednesday’s edition of Morning Joe, suggesting it blinded them to issues like the virus and “climate change.”After spending time bashing President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, co-anchor Willie Geist pivoted to ask Giridharadas about the pandemic: “What do we learn from this?” Giridharadas began with raising a question of his own: “What's going to be our relationship to government, the idea of government, after this?” Then he answered his own question, suggesting that “[t]here is a primordial American tradition going back to the founders of being freedom-obsessed — even though we’re a country founded on slavery, genocide — being freedom-obsessed to the point that we’re always so afraid of the government coming for us, that we are blind to other types of threats.”
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Look at you go with more self promotion!
GO YOU!
Amazing how much smarter you are than the rest of the folks here.
you knowmif trump was for the lockdown and the dems weren’t, you’d be hearing the exact opposite from the media
you know its true
Read the whole story, including quotes, if your mind has good resistance to elitist codswallop.
The real plague of our time isn’t the Chinky fly. It’s malignant narcissism.
you knowmif trump was for the lockdown and the dems weren’t, you’d be hearing the exact opposite from the mediaIs President Trump against the lock down?
“Banned or suspended” account say what?
“freedom-obsessed to the point that we’re”
If this person thinks that cherishing freedoms is an unhealthy obsession, there is no “we” that he is part of. America is more than just a location on a map, or a people found within an arbitrary set of borders.
“”” And I think the most important thing that could come out of this is realizing the government is not the biggest threat to our liberty.“”””
What else is a threat to our liberties? This idiot doesn’t understand what defines liberty.
i thought his position was more or less leaving it up to the states to decide
Foreigners do not get Americans at all.
If they simply read our founding documents they would get a clue.
What is going to be our relationship to government???
Government is like insurance: You don’t want to pay for any more than you just gotta have. - RatRipper
Yes, it’s about freedom. The success of the United States as the world’s oldest republic was not based on socialism or totalitarianism.
Who the F are you?
He clearly doe not understand America.
Or Americans.
WE are the sovereign.
WE LOAN our power to the government.
The consent of the governed can be revoked.
Foreigners do not get Americans at all.
He’s not from around here, is he?
The commentator should move to China where the people there are definitely not freedom obsessed.
If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees. -- President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people –- Bill Clinton during an interview on MTV in 1993
We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans…that we forget about reality. -- President Bill Clinton, quoted in USA Today, March 11, 1993, Page 2A, ``NRA change: `Omnipotent to powerful’’’ by Debbie Howlett
“When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly… that they would work for the common good, as well as for the individual welfare… However, now there’s a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there’s too much freedom. When personal freedom’s being abused, you have to move to limit it.” – Bill Clinton, April 19, 1995
A little insight into a 'rat brain.
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