[Robert DeLong]

I’m beginning to believe that it is perhaps an outdated belief in this country, and that if there is to be a return to the freedoms we used to take for granted, it will not be a peaceful endeavor. If you understand what I am saying.

[hopespringseternal]

A lot of people are coming to that conclusion. Not enough. Too many phony libertarians think that as long as the infringement of rights doesn’t come directly from the government it’s all good.

Totalitarians will never let you opt out of their control. See what they did to Parler. And now they have seized control of elections. The judiciary is irretrievably corrupt. Every federal bureaucracy is now weaponized to defend a one party state.

[Alberta's Child]

See my last post. One of the biggest problems we face in this country is that a lot of the “freedoms we used to take for granted” were phony, government-imposed rules that had no basis in any real concept of freedom at all.

Having the right to use government coercion to force your will on your employer doesn’t make you “free.” In fact, it’s a total perversion of freedom and completely distorts the fundamental idea of what freedom is.

Frankly, I find the judge's ruling — and especially his reasons for issuing it — refreshing.

[sauropod]

I do. And it saddens me.

Revolution imposes hardships on a whole lot of people.

[Bloodandgravy]

Yep