Is there anything you'd be willing to fight a war for?

[JasonBlack]

(11-10-2022, 04:26 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(11-09-2022, 09:26 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(11-09-2022, 07:25 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: And yet people in Georgia voted for their governor because he lifted the lockdowns and mandates so quickly, so that more people died there than in other states per capita.

And then he and other Republicans shouted "inflation" to get votes, saying that the government should not have spent money to help people and small businesses recover from the lockdowns that the government itself imposed.

Republicans will go to any length to deceive and foment evil upon the people.

Yes, a few more people died, but that doesn't give people the right to....literally stop people from going to work. There is an order of magnitude difference between restricting the behavior of, say, a drunk driver going 30 miles above the speed limit and a small business owner going into the shop, a regular citizen going into work, a mother taking her children to a nature reserve (yes, that was restricted in many states, and throughout all of Canada). "Fomenting evil upon people" is...truly a colorful way of describing such a banal set of activities.

I repeat: freedom is more important than security. This is, quite possibly, THE most important concept of what it means to be an American. There is conservatives tell some people to leave. We aren't for everyone.

Over a million people died is not a "few more". It does give people and their government the right to literally stop people from going to work, yes, because this covid contagion was severe enough to require this. And yet the Republicans use "Democrat government spending causes inflation" to deceive people in Wisconsin and Ohio into keeping the country going backward, just because the congress (in both bipartisan as well as Democratic bills) fulfilled its responsibility to support people and businesses during the shutdowns it imposed, and to help people recover economically from them. Republicans think the shutdowns, which they helped to impose, should NOT help the people through this government-imposed policy.

This cruel and selfish deception fooled enough people to keep the Biden agenda stalled, but enough of the people saw through it to greatly reduce the size of the expected "red wave." Republicans have no answer for anything except to lower taxes on the rich and impose restrictions of their own of our freedom-- those which have NO justification whatever, in contrast to the shutdowns and mandates which protected us and allowed us now to get back to normal...

"freedom is more important than security" is a nice slogan but it has nothing to do with the reality of what's happening.

It has everything to do with the reality we are currently facing, including both the current post-covid depression, and Europe's economic collapse (Putin's invasion has made it worse, but it was happening at least a year before that).

Freedom over security is more than just a slogan. It's a principle that hundreds of thousands of Americans have given their lives to defend: the blood of patriots watering the tree of liberty. It is why we have risen to become the most powerful nation in world history. Whether we continue this proud history is up to the my generation, and I am not optimistic.