[microgood]

All humans want freedom. It is very rare, however, when the chance for success and desire and opportunity line up together to make it a real possibility worth risking it all to acheive it.

[Issaquahking]

All humans want freedom. It is very rare, however, when the chance for success and desire and opportunity line up together to make it a real possibility it is worth risking it all to acheive it.


There, that's more like it.

[budwiesest]

Good point! Much easier to lose freedoms than to gain them as well. As stewards of our own individual liberties, I'd say that we haven't been vigilant and that the other side is winning. Be it gun controls or flying the friendly skys, the chickenization of our people suggests we'll soon be out of our element in freedom's waters.

[TASMANIANRED]

Humans are a strange mix of wanting freedom and self determination and wanting to be taken care of.

Recent black immigrants from Africa tend to prosper because they haven't been indoctrinated with a victim mentality.

The US became a refuge from every nation of those seeking a better life. They came from Monarchy's, from Dictatorships, from tribal cultures,

They all embraced self reliance and self determination until the Socialist Revolution of 1937 and the Communist revolution of the 1960's taught them it's easier to be a child than an adult.