Opinion: The Conservative Idea of 'Freedom' is Childish and Selfish

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I believe there may be some fantasy that the United States is a country based on the concept of meritocracy. "Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps, work hard, buy a house, and you will become solidly middle-class." Maybe that was true during the last century after WW2, when the government believed that tax dollars were supposed to support the people who were taxed, and there were government programs which did feed into a system of meritocracy. The GI BIll is one example. Let's get real ya'll, meritocracy in the US is as dead as a doornail. If you're born poor you're gonna stay poor. If you're born with one dollar of generational wealth, you might be ok but you'll be stuck with $80K in student loans. People continue to be brainwashed with the nonsense that politicians similar to Lee are preaching: poor people are bad and deserve nothing, and the main function of government is to allow businesses to flourish, because by some miracle it will somehow float down to normal people. And then wrap it up with the Family Values statement and you're set! Until we stop idolizing the Donald Trumps and stop demonizing people who are poor, we are stuck.
To the Lib Dem everyone is free in Cuba. Or Communist China. Or N. Korea. Everything mentioned is free there. Only problem is there is nothing. You can move. Please.
Your last sentence sounds like you're suggesting a violent, armed insurrection....
My article is not advocating violent action. It is advocating for the building of reliable social programs through both electoral action and direct means like mutual aid projects in order to build real freedom by taking coercive power out of the hands of a few in the owning class.
If I may offer a perspective, the message that appears to be sent in this article, is, not "freedom", but rather, a form of financial "subsidizing". If we revisit our nation's history, the chance for freedom, from tyranny, to pursue life, liberty and happiness, with few governmental constraints upon citizens, is a freedom that has been and must continually be fought for and protected, which is the foundation of our country. Thank you.
The point is Orange Bad Man was impeached for your kind of language about "fight for real freedom." He said, "I want to thank you very much, and they go off to some other life, but I said something is wrong here, something is really wrong, can't have happened and we fight, we fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore." And he was accused of fomenting an armed insurrection. As is clearly demonstrable and not necessarily blameworth, people on all sides of the partisan struggle use this kind of language without intending or suggesting armed revolt. I hope you see this?
My article has nothing to do with the impeachment of Donald Trump. The context and purpose of words matter. In the context in which I'm using the term "fight," it is obvious that I'm not speaking of armed insurrection. I have no interest in re-litigating Trump's second impeachment on an article which is in no way related to that issue. I'm not interested in turning a conversation about the future of the concept of freedom into yet another discussion on a disgraced former president who has lost nearly all power and relevance.
It was obvious President Trump did not mean an armed insurrection but your side choose to make it so, to the great shame of the nation. The world is laughing at the ASSterisk interregnum for keeping thousands of troops with razor wire to guard poor little Nancy. Your side says you should be prosecuted for using such language, unless of course if you are a Dimm Lib. Sorry, but that's the world we are in now.
Again, President Trump is largely irrelevant and has virtually no power. I'm not obsessed with a disgraced former president, so I'm not going to continue arguing about his second impeachment. If you'd like to obsess and fanboy over a grown man with no power, I'd suggest writing your own articles about him and how much you love him. I'm sure he'd appreciate it. I'm also not a registered Democrat, so there's no reason to link their actions to me. This is the last comment I'll make on this nonsense, as it is utterly unrelated to anything I've written or will write in the near future.
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