What a Leftist Means by 'Freedom'
Townhall,
by
Mark Lewis
Original Article
Posted By: Mercedes44,
9/25/2024 10:57:09 AM
Any Leftist, any Democrat, will tell you they believe in freedom. Of course they do. Even the Chinese believe in “freedom.” It’s the Donald (“Hitler”) Trumps who are trying to destroy our “freedom” and “democracy.” Everybody else believes in freedom. And that can be confusing. The conundrum is, a Leftist doesn’t mean by “freedom” what traditional, God-fearing Americans mean by “freedom.” If you talk to a Leftist about “freedom,” you will probably both use the same word. And that Leftist will almost surely say that “Trump will destroy our freedom!” But unless you understand what Lefty means by the word “freedom,”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Kate318 9/25/2024 11:10:24 AM (No. 1802015)
Good article. I would say the same for the word “democracy.” It means something completely different to someone on the left.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Calamity Kate 9/25/2024 11:14:57 AM (No. 1802021)
Freedom: the unfettered ability to act as one ought to act; it is not a blank check to act on any and every base impulse. Freedom is for a moral people.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Bogasso 9/25/2024 11:52:47 AM (No. 1802044)
P.J. O’Rourke once described the Left’s idea of freedom as something toddler-like: they can put anything in their mouth, say nasty words and expose their private parts to whoever.
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bpl40 9/25/2024 11:55:13 AM (No. 1802046)
The core purpose of the US Constitution is not enable government but to restrain it. All laws and regulations must be interpreted in that light. Try arguing that with a Law School professor in his freshman class and you will get thrown out. They just don't get it!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 9/25/2024 11:56:13 AM (No. 1802048)
Freedom to a leftist means free shite from the Government from pre-birth to post-grave. And no work required. No individualism allowed. What citizens thought when the Soviets first took control of Russia. That stifling control lasted almost a century. Russian citizens are still not completely free under Putin.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chagrined 9/25/2024 11:57:41 AM (No. 1802050)
As usual, leftists have everything bassackwards.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Laotzu 9/25/2024 12:15:21 PM (No. 1802066)
The Left uses "freedom", "democracy" and "liberty" when they mean licentiousness.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/25/2024 1:04:50 PM (No. 1802092)
Are there limits on freedom? Yep! Is one free to hurt others? The answer is a resounding NO! Just look around to see evidence to the contrary however. The left loves to turn to the government for guidance. They have put government in the role of God. Has government hurt its citizens? Absolutely! Do they have that right? Absolutely NOT! The left puts far too much trust in government. People put far too much trust in government. Should we let the government be our final arbiter on freedoms and what is right and wrong? Nope! Government is a reflection of its people. Lots of those people have very little concept of what's right and wrong and have no business being in government. The lefty will immediately point to Trump as an example. The truth is 90% of our government needs to be replaced.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chumley 9/25/2024 1:22:20 PM (No. 1802094)
Its a tricky balance. I dont want some church person (with the full approval of God, just ask him) defining the limits of my behavior. As long as I am not directly harming or putting someone else at unreasonable risk, they have no legitimate cause to regulate me.
What I have noticed with the communist left is that when discussing the Bill Of Rights, they never want to talk about what it means. They just want to talk about what it DOESN'T mean. The First Amendment doesn't mean you can say what you want. The Second doesn't mean you can own a gun. To those communists everything is the opposite of what it says.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 9/25/2024 2:56:50 PM (No. 1802137)
"You are free to do exactly what we tell you to do."
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
5 handicap 9/26/2024 6:07:25 AM (No. 1802404)
I pray to God that America votes in his favor this November... I fear that should the forces of Satan win this November, that there will be armed insurrection to take America back from the Communists that despise us.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Red Jeep 9/26/2024 7:06:54 AM (No. 1802443)
"Any Leftist, any Democrat, will tell you they believe in freedom." No, they believe in their power.
When Leftists talk about a threat to Democracy they mean a threat to their power.
Freedom and democracy to a Leftist both mean "our/their power."
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Clinger 9/26/2024 7:48:50 AM (No. 1802482)
Ultimately it boils down to negative vs positive rights. In the Leftist world you have a right to healthcare, a living wage, "affordable" housing, all things that someone else must provide for you. In the world of our constitution and declaration of independence we have unalienable God given negative rights that can't be taken from you like the right to keep your property and product of your toil so it can't be absconded from you by government to dole out.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 9/26/2024 9:42:36 AM (No. 1802570)
It comes down to God's will or a human's will. Given that, we have God's choices (The Commandments) and people's choices. We have a party that is absolutely trying to take God out of society and that is how they view freedom; they view it as their will/choice 24/7 and nothing will stop them. At all costs.
Yesterday on The View, Whoopi Goldberg asserted that Donald Trump was like a fly or bug and Joe Biden slapped the palm of his hand on the table to create the image of squashing or killing the bug. For me, that describes perfectly their definition of freedom.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Zigrid 9/26/2024 10:09:26 AM (No. 1802592)
When the lefties say "Donald Trump will destroy our freedom"...they mean..THEIR freedom to rule and control...not OUR freedom to be Americans...the washington elites are bought and paid for by the global oligarchs who want Americans thinned out...hence the illegal aliens brought into our country to disrupt our lives....
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 9/26/2024 12:37:15 PM (No. 1802703)
The Left has no guard rails!
They don't believe in virtue as defined by scripture. They believe in humanism as any goes.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
The Remnants 9/26/2024 3:32:42 PM (No. 1802802)
It seems to me that, nowadays, there are way too many people who lie, especially those in the media and in politics. How many of us no longer trust our government, simply because they say anything for the moment and, if we get lucky, we might find out what really happened years afterwards. I do not believe that Leftists believe in Truth. God only knows how they would define the word.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
kono 9/26/2024 7:54:35 PM (No. 1802914)
Lefties presume to have the authority to redefine words to meet their philosophical viewpoints. They've redefined freedom and marriage and substituted "gender" for "sex" to give them power over dozens of human categories, where nature had already established two clear biological categories. Their redefinitions today become retroactive, giving them the power to reinterpret existing laws to suit their agenda, where their agenda would not get majority support otherwise.
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