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Harris, Dems took back ‘freedom’ from the GOP. Why it matters
MassLive.com ^

Posted on 08/22/2024 6:43:45 PM PDT by matt04

Freedom, it’s often said, isn’t free. But for Democrats in Chicago this week, it’s been the gift that keeps on giving.

From the Beyoncé song that’s served as Vice President Kamala Harris’ walk-on music, to its strategic deployment across scores of speeches, Democrats have flipped the script on a patriotic noun that used to feel like the exclusive property of Republicans.

Instead of freedom from taxes and onerous regulation, or freedom from the government taking your guns, Democrats have reframed the word.

This week, it’s meant freedom for women to make their own health care choices, the freedom for Americans to choose whom they love, and the freedom not to worry about getting shot in school.

“The Republicans gave them an opening with Dobbs,” UMass Amherst political scientist Ray La Raja said, referring to the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision that toppled Roe v. Wade, sparking a wave of incandescent rage among women that continues to have electoral reverberations.

“The smart strategy for Democrats is to frame some of the GOP’s reactionary policies more broadly as restricting freedom because it will not resonate just with women, but with independents,” he continued. “At the very least, they may neutralize Republican claims in this election that they are the party of freedom.”

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In an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll released ahead of the convention, 91% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said they’d be enthusiastic or satisfied if Harris were elected.

That’s a 19-point swing from the 72% of that same cohort who said the same thing about President Joe Biden.

All told, Democrats used the “F-Word” (freedom) more than 100 times during the convention’s opening night on Monday, according to a Washington Post analysis.

(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; beyonce; dnc; dnc2024; fetuses; freedom; harris; jayz; slaveryisfreedom; tmz
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What a bunch of propaganda they call "news." Strange they mode no comment on the "my body, my choice" when it came to a experiential jab or else you lose you job.
1 posted on 08/22/2024 6:43:45 PM PDT by matt04
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I guess the only freedom lefties care about is sexual freedom and even then they are total anarchists, like the Marquis De Sade.


2 posted on 08/22/2024 6:45:19 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: matt04

“Freedom is slavery”
What a bunch of tards.


3 posted on 08/22/2024 6:47:34 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: matt04

Margaret Sanger would be proud.


4 posted on 08/22/2024 6:48:42 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: No name given

This Convention has been great, FOR TRUMP! 🤣


5 posted on 08/22/2024 6:49:03 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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“I think the Democrats, with Biden/Harris, have owned freedom,” Bob Peters, a delegate from Lexington, told MassLive. “As the mayor of Mesa, Ariz., John Giles said ... the party of John McCain doesn’t exist.”

“If not for the Biden/Harris administration, [Russian leader Vladimir] Putin would be severely pressuring the NATO eastern flank, and if Trump were president, NATO would be in retreat,” Peters said.

Strange, if that was the case, why did Putin invade when Biden was in office. Dems are just a bunch of NPCs. No independent thought.

6 posted on 08/22/2024 6:49:47 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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the media receiver their marching orders- again...it was “joy” earlier this week. Now they “took back freedom”

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4260195/posts


7 posted on 08/22/2024 6:50:01 PM PDT by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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Government over reach isn’t freedom it’s tyranny.


8 posted on 08/22/2024 6:55:51 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: matt04

“Freedom” is a neutral value, potentially good, potentially evil.

Until you know the answer to the question, “Freedom to do what?”, it is meaningless.


9 posted on 08/22/2024 6:59:06 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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So it went from “Druumph is weird” to “joy” to “take back freedom” in like a month. Just throwing things at the wall until something sticks. I feel this will be a theme where every few week they pick a new phrase.


10 posted on 08/22/2024 6:59:13 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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“'The smart strategy for Democrats is to frame some of the GOP’s reactionary policies more broadly as restricting freedom because it will not resonate just with women, but with independents,' he continued. "


11 posted on 08/22/2024 7:03:02 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: God luvs America

I know about the fraud. TRUMP’S GOT THIS!


12 posted on 08/22/2024 7:03:06 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: No name given

Most Americans are inconsistent Sadist. They may say they have a moral code but in practice do what they think they can get away with.


13 posted on 08/22/2024 7:03:11 PM PDT by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: matt04

Most voters lost what little freedom they had when inflation took that away from them.


14 posted on 08/22/2024 7:06:01 PM PDT by jimpick
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To: matt04

Without personal responsibility, there is no freedom. Personal responsibility is the key to avoiding having to go to the abortion mill. I am talking to women and men.

If this country is going down the tubes, maybe its because 65+ million souls of aborted babies are crying to God for justice.


15 posted on 08/22/2024 7:06:49 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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FDR was a raging Socalist, but he was a genius at talking to the avarahe American. These Marxists elitists are pathetic.


16 posted on 08/22/2024 7:07:49 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: matt04

licentiousness - sexually unrestrained behavior; behavior unrestrained by morality or law


17 posted on 08/22/2024 7:08:49 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ("Building a wall is a red herring" - Elon Musk)
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To: matt04

Does anyone else notice they’re like the Soviet Union on steroids with the propaganda this time? It’s always been there but this election democrats seem exceptional with it.


18 posted on 08/22/2024 7:10:21 PM PDT by jughandle
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??Really the candidate that will seize patents? The VP candidate that sets up a hotline to rat on your neighbors?


19 posted on 08/22/2024 7:15:03 PM PDT by Baldwin
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It seems to much more on par like was with Obama in 08. In 16 it wasn’t as bad but it seemed to pick up a bit in 2020.


20 posted on 08/22/2024 7:16:43 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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