The Cost of Freedom

townhall.com ^ | 8/09/2016 | Allen West

[rktman]

The cost of freedom is not about populist soundbites nor the reticence and obfuscation of perceiving a world made up of unicorns and rainbows. Today we live in a world that closer resembles Machiavelli’s “The Prince” rather than Kant’s “Universal Cosmopolitan State.”

The cost of freedom is not just about numbers and dollars. It is about the sacrifices made to ensure future generations do not live under the dark specter of evil and tyranny. It is a cost that brave men paid many years ago on Lexington Green, and is still being paid today.

We now seek out leaders in western civilization who know history and are committed to ensuring that the light of liberty will not be replaced by a new dark age.

[rktman]

Were hildabama to become the next potus, the downsizing and reduction in the military 'might' just continue. Possibly because there 'might' be some long term military types that would bail out.

[TheConservativeParty]

The demonrat vote fraud is what looms over this election and all others. Those bastards once again got a tyrannical “judge” to weaken our Voter ID Law, just in time for the election. Same story in other states. Our Law is 5 years old and everytime there is an election, the rigged system yanks our law. Like Stalin said, it’s he who ‘counts’ the votes that has all the power.

We need such a huge margin of victory that the dems are caught off guard with not enough fraud done to overcome Trump’s margin of victory.

I hope more leaked emails destroy Hiltery (and she has more crazy outbursts and spaz attacks) to the point that some of her voters just stay home.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

One of the “costs” of Freedom is the obligation to take care of yourself. People aren’t free if they are looking for the government to subsidize them. 90 years of the Welfare State have conditioned our citizens to devalue freedom in favor of living the good life on someone else’s dime.

[itsahoot]

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. ~Ronald Wilson Reagan