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To: Kaslin
To that nagging question, the answer increasingly seems to be yes.

I stopped right there. First, it is not a nagging question. Second, the answer does not "seem". It is yes, and it has definitively been yes from the very beginning. There has been no question about it. Period.

Far too many people, including many Fearpers, seem (see, I can use that word too) to think it is a good idea to trade freedom and liberty for a false sense of security. It isn't even real security. They are still afraid.

What a pathetic way to live a life, being afraid of every little thing.

The cause of this is a reliance on government. Individualism is dead to many Americans. If you have someone carry you around for too long you are no longer able to walk. That's exactly what is happening. People do not take individual responsibility in many parts of their lives, so now they must take "collective" responsibility. They are closet socialist, many of them calling themselves conservatives. They just don't know how weak and cowardly they are. They are unable to stand up for freedom and liberty.

When I write unable to stand up, that is a metaphor, it's not physical, it is mental. They are weak in the mind. Weak in principles. Weak in personal responsibility. Weak in faith.

I have written many times from the beginning of this political hoax that people need to take personal responsibility for their health and safety. Certainly, if one has a compromised immune system they have a personal responsibility to extra precautions for many things, even the yearly seasonal flu. The ChiCom flu is no different. However, they should not destroy the economy, shutter businesses, wipe away people's livelihoods, dreams, and their freedoms and liberties.

We are not getting back the freedoms and liberties that we have lost. Every time we sacrifice freedom and liberty for security we permanently lose the freedom and liberty. We are always told it is only temporary, like bending the curve or to fight terrorism. We have been fighting terrorism for 20+ years and we gave up all sorts of liberties that we will never get back. There was another way to obtain security from terrorism and there certainly was another way to obtain security from the ChiCom flu. In both cases, we did not need to lose our freedoms

So if you are Fearper, shame on you. You are a weak coward, unable to take personal responsibility. You are part of the problem. You want collective responsibility. You are nothing more than a closet socialist. You are the enemy because you stole our freedom and liberty.

23 posted on 09/04/2020 6:19:56 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: ConservativeInPA

So if you are Fearper, shame on you. You are a weak coward, unable to take personal responsibility. You are part of the problem. You want collective responsibility. You are nothing more than a closet socialist. You are the enemy because you stole our freedom and liberty.

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Well said and so very true.


27 posted on 09/04/2020 6:28:59 AM PDT by walkingdead (We are sacrificing America's youth on the altar of our own fear. And it is a travesty.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Very well put. Thanks.


39 posted on 09/04/2020 7:48:28 AM PDT by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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