People talk of “liberty” as if its achievement signals the end of history.
Even most of America’s founders did. They implemented liberty — through a Bill of Rights that a government must honor to remain credible — and that was that.
Ben Franklin, perhaps the smartest of the Founders (other than Jefferson) famously quipped, “We’ve given you a republic … now you have to keep it.”
Franklin clearly understood that just because people say they want liberty doesn’t mean they really want liberty; nor does it mean that future generations will necessarily want liberty, either.
Ronald Reagan brilliantly observed that even when free, man is only a generation away from the possibility of total tyranny. America’s experiences under the era of COVID fascism and the Biden regime illustrated that more chillingly than anything we have yet seen, in our nation. The Communist fascist totalitarian Democratic Party looms over us like a shadow of death, waiting to strike the final blow to the liberty they so loathe.
Ayn Rand, author of “Atlas Shrugged,” astutely observed that liberty is only a byproduct of the human will to live. Man survives by thought, by reason, and by self-responsible action, said Rand; if man ever decides he doesn’t wish to live by those values, then liberty will vanish, and liberty will also be beside the point. When humans stop thinking for themselves, either tyrants or anarchy take over by default.
And here we are. From what I can see, most Americans still say they want liberty. Most human beings claim they want freedom, which is why most of them flood our borders. But I’m not at all convinced that most people on earth grasp what liberty requires. I’m not saying it necessarily requires sacrifices. But liberty does require a love of life, and a willingness to embrace the personal responsibility that happiness always demands. Happines comes from an accumulation of smart choices, over time. I am a therapist, and I am here to tell you that millions and millions of people out there feel that happiness is something that happens TO you, not something you must accept as a life’s mission to generate on your own.
Happiness should happen to me? I’m entitled to it? Many people seem to feel this way: I see this as a very, very serious problem.
Liberty is not the end of history. 1776 was only the beginning. It’s up to the rest of us, and forthcoming generations, to figure out exactly why liberty is so necessary and important.
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I understand President Trump’s defense of Pam Bondi. I also understand the pent-up frustration and rage over the Epstein letdown. I interpret this not as a divided MAGA movement. Instead, I see it as a healthy expression of anger and an indication that Trump’s two hugely important terms in office are only the prelude to what has yet to come: Nothing less than an American version of the French Revolution against the elites who comprise the unholy union of economics and state that never should have happened in a free country.
Put bluntly: Watch your backs, and your heads, Commiefascist elitists. The anger out there is far worse than you realize.
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“I’d rather be an American than a Democrat,” says a sign.
I would rather be a mobster than a Democrat. A Tony Soprano has a sliver of accountability and integrity in his warped quest to prop up his murderous empire. He’s a saint when compared to Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or George/Alex Soros. Democrats pay absolutely nothing for their errors. They are morally smug billionaires who are never on the run, and instead are the celebrated. They have absolutely nothing to offer other than parasitism, willful ignorance and wild-eyed destruction. Not even a tiny shred of redeemability. In a rational world, they’d be visible only as the repugnant derelicts they truly are.
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From Breitbart and the New York Post: Anti-money/anti-capitalism Communist-Muslim candidate for mayor Mamdani of New York City reportedly benefited from $37 million of George/Alex Soros money.
Communists and Democrats (exact same thing) are so pitifully predictable. They LOVE money. Money, in fact, is the only thing they value. What they despise: money in the hands of people who actually produced and earned it.
This thug in New York is a woke child mutilator, Muslim beheader and Marxist poverty-maker rolled up into one horrific hybrid. The media, academia and hordes of stoned, brainwashed and mortally ignorant young people think he’s cool and love him.