Hillary Should Be 50 Points Behind

Townhall.com ^ | September 24, 2016 | Jeff Crouere

[RipSawyer]

From the article, “Americans cherish freedoms...”

No, we don’t! If Americans really cherished freedom we would never have gotten anywhere close to the miserable mess that exists now. All too many Americans have no Earthly idea what freedom even means.

Here is the first lesson on the subject. FREE is a superlative, meaning there are no degrees of free, only degrees of unfree or repression. If someone offers you a new Lexus for ten dollars you could not truthfully say that it is offered free of charge, yes you could say that it was for practical purposes free but it would not be free and to say that a new Lexus offered for a hundred dollars is more free than one offered for a thousand dollars is not correct, neither is actually free. The same thing applies to political and economic freedom. To say that one country is freer than another is incorrect, you can say that one country is less repressed than another but to say that one or the other is more free is incorrect. This country has steadily become more and more repressed over a long, long period. It has not been truly free for a very long time if it ever was and during that time of becoming more and more repressed we have had politicians who preached to the rest of the world that they should be more like we are. If Americans truly cherished freedom we might still be close enough to freedom that one could rightfully tell me that I am being a nitpicker to complain but obviously that is not the case.

[kiltie65]

Why doesn’t wiki-leaks put something out NOW just before the debate?

[Kaslin]

I sure hope you were sarcastic when you wrote that we don't cherish freedoms.

If not, than perhaps it is you who doesn't cherish freedoms. I do realize there are limits in what you can do and rightly so.

If everyone could do what they wanted it would be a disaster.

[GoldenPup]

Hillary Clinton asked, “Why aren’t I 50 points ahead?”
Because you are crooked, corrupt....and ugly, that’s why!,

[Kaslin]

And that is factual!!!

[Windflier]

“According to Clinton, “Right to Work is wrong for workers and wrong for America.”

I don’t know how anyone says such a thing with a straight face. I mean, seriously....the Democrat universe is hung upside down.

[Heart-Rest]

"I should be up much higher by all these 50's!"

[RipSawyer]

“If everyone could do what they wanted it would be a disaster.”

Of course there must be limits on what people can do but those limits should only apply to things that no sane person would ever say should NOT be limited such as theft, arson, assault etc. When I was a boy there were any number of things that one could do without a second thought that are illegal now and there was no disaster. Our problem is that there are just about ZERO limits on what the government can do and we have not stopped it, we have put up with more and more and more. THAT is why I say that Americans no longer cherish freedom. How long do you think that Washington, Jefferson and the rest would have put up with this nonsense? When the supreme court ruled that requiring people to buy insurance or pay a penalty was constitutional because the penalty is a tax and the congress has the power of taxation they in essence said that the federal government can require you to do anything, even something as absurd as buying two pounds of butter a week and levy a “tax” on you if you refuse. Anyone who really believes that the constitution allows that is a blithering idiot who should sit in the pumpkin patch blowing spit bubbles and waiting for the great pumpkin to appear. Anyone who cherishes his spouse, child or any other human would not simply agree to allow someone to take that person away and people who truly cherish freedom would not have allowed it to be stripped away as it has been and I include myself in that group who have not done what we should have done. I used to try to warn people what was happening when there was still time to do something but eventually gave in to fatigue and started ignoring it much of the time. If you think I am a hothead now you should have heard me forty years ago.