[nathanbedford]

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.

[caww]

Good post! Thanks...

[rlmorel]

Yes...good post. Hope all is well with you.

I had honestly never thought much about the difference between “Freedom” and “Liberty”, but given that words do have meaning, it would be wasteful to have two that mean exactly the same thing.

While it is not uncommon for two words to mean the same thing, to have two words in such an important, narrow and important confine does seem odd. Funny that it never occurred to me before.

What I take from this observation is that nobody can take freedom from you, you can only take it from yourself.

But...you can, and if you are not vigilant, will have your liberty taken from you.

Interesting. Went my whole life pondering these things and this never entered my mind.

[ammodotcom]

As well put as something could be put. I hope you already publish your writing.