Posted on 10/09/2023 5:26:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
An old adage is that “the truth will set you free.” Well, many of today’s demented Dems are not particularly fond of the truth or freedom. Indeed, a recent poll released by RealClearPolitics shows that over one-third of Dems believe Americans have “too much freedom.”
Maybe criminals have too much, but not law-abiding citizens.
Dems "defund police policies" and criminal coddling are producing consequences reminiscent of the movie The Purge. Criminal activity therefore becomes legal, producing a dystopian society where Hobbesian motifs prevail: life outside society is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. Not too different from some dysfunctional Dem-run cities, in other words.
Actually, it is in an unfettered state of nature where there’s potentially too much freedom. Big brutes may impose their will on weaklings where one has the “freedom” to swing one’s fist with reckless, uncivil abandon.
In civil society, emerging from a limited government deriving powers from a social contract, one still has some freedom to swing. However, it ends right in front of someone else’s proboscis. Or anywhere that might cause injury, for that matter.
While upstanding citizens can have too much freedom in the Dem’s convoluted world, apparently criminals cannot have enough. No wonder they espouse truthiness over truth -- they want to limit freedom for the rest of us while aggrandizing government, except the components that “protect and serve.” The inmates are running the asylum, which is ironic since Dems wallow in victimhood so much.
We don’t need Leviathan to avoid Hobbes' state of anarchy, but limited government is necessary for freedom to flourish, perhaps even enabling the better angels of our nature. Its main purpose is to thwart “might makes right” lawlessness.
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Leftists seem to have backward thinking that is just amazing to see.
THAT statement from someone who can only make such a statement BECAUSE of our freedom!
Can these jerks BE any more stupid??!!
king George thought the same thing about the American colonies. he even tried to force the issue by attempting to disarm those colonies. just like democrats are trying to do now. we either fight for our freedoms or have our lives dictated to us. whatever will we do?
They believe if you don’t accept what they say and offer, that your unworthy of life and thought. You are sub-human and should have no rights. Hillary put it best when she recommended ‘de-programming’ for those that disagreed with Liberals.
Underneath every liberal is a totalitarian, or more simply put, a NAZI. They will just tell you so if you listen.
The fact that they get things wrong on issues about 100% of the time is astonishing, but it just proves who is really in charge of them.
That’s the beauty of the Global Warming scam. Just declare any activity as causing Global Warming, and you are causing harm to others, thus it must be curtailed.
Democrats need to consider moving to a country more in tune with their belief system.
When someone else tells you what rights you have, you don’t have any rights.
Did Klaus Schwab and his World Enslavement Forum just say someone must be in charge of rationing Freedom and now democrats are saying the same thing
Indeed. "Global Warming" and it's counterpart, "Climate Change" gives the John Kerrys of the world the power to regulate or stop almost anything.
Where you live, what you eat, do in your free time, where you worship, how you move about from one place to another, what you can or cannot buy--can all be dictated under such restrictive laws.
Don't challenge them. They may just pull off an entirely new level of stupid.
"Have faith in their abilities to solve their problems on their own." - The Traveler from Star Trek the Next Generation
If you live in a bright world, you believe, have faith and trust people.
If you live in a dark world, you fear, have doubt and a terrible need to control.
When you believe:
Police cause crime.
Property is theft.
Racism is caused by being white.
Poverty is caused by Capitalism.
Your solutions magnify problems because your fundamental understanding of the universe rests on false premises.
Democrats: Americans have ‘too much freedom’
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Could change title to “Americans: Democrats s have ‘too much freedom’”
Democrats are allowed to loot, steal, kill, etc. So many examples — Hunter Biden taking bribes on behalf to the president. Violating laws to permit mail-in ballots in order to steal elections, kangaroo courts, etc. Allowing illegals to flood our nation. ETC.
Not stupidity (per se ). Just rabid marxism.
And yet, they still get elected.
Inside every Democrat is a dictator trying to get out.
Ah, yes. Democrats. Still the party of slavery, I see. And they’re not going to be content until they achieve their goal of a second Civil War.
An old adage is that “the truth will set you free.”
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I hate it when scripture is trivialized.... an ‘adage’ is just “an old saying which may have some validity but is typically overused and rendered trite and often considered to be a cliche”...
No... this comes directly from scripture. John 8:32 “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
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