We already live in a country that “orders us” not to go to certain places even if they pose no security risk to self.
What is happening to the so-called right to bear arms?
What has become of the Fourth and Fifth Amendment? X-ray machines at airports, camera’s everywhere...
You have a government telling you what you should eat, probably feeding your kids in school.
This government will tell you what light bulb you “will” use and they nudge you to buy certain cars.
They will define what free speech is for you, tell you that you’re not licensed to do certain jobs, they will dictate who you hire and mandate what cooking oil you use, set the rates you can charge for services, impose regulatory fees or taxes they feel appropriate on their own through internal adminstrative policy making...
Freedom in America is a hollow word thrown around by demagogue politicians and the idiotic that have no clue that they already live in a slimmed down version of the DDR. The only difference is that this is a slightly softer version of a tyranny and the fences and walls are more subtle. When in Iraq I asked people if they thought they were “free,” surprisingly they thought so. There is this miss-belief that people elsewhere feel oppressed and that they seek our version of “freedom.” Truth is, freedom is a perceptive phenomenon that we perceive through a cultural filter, and we today are not free in the sense our founding fathers perceived and intended it to be. The point is that the traditional meaning of freedom has been perverted and we are already far removed from even what the Bill of Rights were intended to prevent or protect us from.
If you want to know how oppressive the nanny state is, you need to go someplace where they don't have one.
Then you see.