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Joe Biden travels to Gettysburg to deliver his seminal speech exhorting Americans to "come together." Applying this to the article in question, one sees that in "coming together" he means creating the "general will" postulated by Rousseau.

Once fixed, the general will has plenary, unchecked power and inevitably becomes autocratic and the enemy of individual freedom.

Of course, the general will, in concept a mass of humanity, is in reality under the Biden/leftist construct the false front of a governing elite-an elite which has formed and seized power under every Rousseau/Marx style of ruling that is ever existed.

But the sales job in getting to this utopian vision is particularly powerful and as dangerous as it is seductive. Joe Biden defiling holy ground at Gettysburg exhorted us to come together to cure the cleft in our body politic that has been almost exclusively created by his leftists. The cry to come together is the rankist sophistry. Once we do "come together" under a progressive regime, our life will be one of universal submission or at first passive and then active resistance.

Freedom comes from government - liberty from God. When the slaves were “freed” it was an act of government and this word took the place of liberty in common usage. Now government decides what we are free to do or not to do - liberty is left to the individual to work out. This change in terminology - change in focus - is at the root of many of today’s problems.

The author deals with the concepts of negative and positive liberties, which are difficult concepts to explain to those who don't want to deal with anything but quick and easy concepts. The second they hear the words, "Positive," or, "Negative," they automatically associate them with "good," or, "bad."

I've found it sometimes useful in illustrating the point with the concept of positive and negative space in art and sculpture.

Simply put, the "negative," space is everything that is not filled by the positive. When it comes to liberties, positive are restrictions, barriers, boundaries or channels that shape the negative. More "negative" means fewer restrictions.