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Has the Great Reset Reminded Us Why Freedom's Worth the Fight?
American Thinker ^ | 21 Aug, 2022 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 08/21/2022 4:49:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Perhaps only the agony of liberty lost could remind Americans why liberty is theirs by right.

When I was a child, I stumbled upon philosophy through a tummy ache. I had eaten too much or run around too hard and found myself feeling miserable outside on a hot summer day. While I was in my own private agony, I remember thinking, "I'll never take all the hours I've spent without stomach pains for granted again." And I never did. Sometimes when other childhood problems had me down, I'd think, "Well, at least you don't have a stomachache," and I'd nod in agreement to the voice in my head. I learned to appreciate something simple — living without pain. Yet I also remember wondering, "Did I really have to go through that momentary misery just to appreciate normal existence?" I think the answer is "yes."

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"Freedom isn't free." It's a great bumper sticker, a message of sublime truth. Do most people actually understand it, though, if they haven't become personally acquainted with its painful meaning? Or must they first lose what they were freely given before learning why liberty is so dear? The past two years of COVID-1984 madness and Western governments' increasing obsession with "climate change" fear porn necessitating today's food and fuel rationing suggest an obvious, if dispiriting, answer.

If Americans required a State-sanctioned stomachache to remind them of freedom's natural bounties, they have certainly suffered the mother of all ipecac remedies. As frustratingly difficult as it is to watch American politicians befoul the land with their Green New Deal communism and allegiance to the World Economic Forum's New World Order, their attacks on Americans' freedoms are simultaneously stirring in the collective American consciousness an equal and opposite effect that might not have previously been possible.

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To: CodeToad

Sean Davis Retweeted Michael Malice”

“Part of the reason that the enemy class is so driven to protect government schooling is because it is the main NPC generator.

Children are incentivized for over a decade to repeat what the authority figure at the front of the room says, often verbatim.”


21 posted on 08/21/2022 6:32:59 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

People like him, Rogan and Portnoy are who will turn things around. Much more effective than 2,000 word articles on American Thinker, Epoch Times etc.


22 posted on 08/21/2022 6:58:32 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: SheepWhisperer

“...and WHY IS JAMAL WEARING A DRESS?”

It makes him feel pretty and special...:)


23 posted on 08/21/2022 7:36:55 AM PDT by hopefullamerican
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To: MtnClimber

Top 3 things that have happened that effect me due to the Imaginary Great Reset:

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2)

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24 posted on 08/21/2022 7:41:06 AM PDT by David Chase
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To: David Chase

HA!! My first laugh of the day.👍😉


25 posted on 08/21/2022 9:13:12 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: Travis McGee

Thanks, TM!


26 posted on 08/21/2022 9:53:36 AM PDT by pookie18 (You don’t have to be high on crack to enjoy Pookie’s Toons! - Tell It Right)
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To: MtnClimber

The thing is, if we do lose our freedoms in the Great Reset or anything else thrown at us, we will not be getting them back. By then, it’ll be too late.


27 posted on 08/21/2022 10:00:37 AM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: pookie18
You bet.

Just saw this on Gab, every Floridian will smile.


28 posted on 08/21/2022 10:03:43 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SheepWhisperer; Travis McGee; Chode; SkyDancer; Salamander; carriage_hill; Lockbox; MtnClimber; ...
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29 posted on 08/24/2022 8:48:19 AM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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To: Travis McGee

LOL, we used to call it Pubix...


30 posted on 08/24/2022 10:02:00 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: MtnClimber

rust never sleeps...


31 posted on 08/24/2022 10:02:19 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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