Freedom, freedom, freedom, bandied about by many but practiced by a few. I am writing this because I think it's roundly hypocritical when someone defends a friend or loved one by saying something like, "they are the greatest person in the world, but they are pro-life." BZZZZT! Sorry, they aren't the greatest and they are in their core, anti-AMERICAN!~
Here's your chance to tell the dK world how much YOU are about freedom. I'll go foist!
Our daer Leader said, "there ought to be limits on freedom." I have a shirt with the uncurious one's mug and that quote. It's amazing to me how many people ARE IN AGREEMENT with that statement. Not me, I'm a freedom whore!
Guns, god, gays. Let's start with those. Dems have been painted as anti-freedom for some time now due to the gun issue.
Not me! I own a rifle and recommend owning guns to anyone who's responsible. I enjoy shooting. I don't care if the guy down the street owns 10 AK-47s if he's responsible. If he goes on a killing spree, then to me, that's the type of thing that's needed to see how loony the gun nut crowd is! If I get killed along the way, no bigz, it's gonna happen anyway.
I hate hunting on a personal level but don't want to take away their right to hunt. If they need to kill bambi to feel like a big man, let them.
God comes up a lot on dK. IIRC your incredible host is an atheist! Religion, if it works for you, great. Just don't even come near my door with that garbage. I'll get my gun ;)-
Gays are another freedom issue. So they want to marry? I say let them do anything they want, because I'm ALLLLLLLLL about freedom. How many good Christians can say that? Heck, my parents can't say that and their not even Christian just old fashioned (and very anti-freedom)...
Abortions, hey, if you are anti-choice then you're anti-freedom and I'll just say anti-American. Don't you know what a poltroonish, idiotic thing it is when someone claims to be "pro-life". You don't know $^17 about quality of life or freedom. Ironically most pro-lifers don't even flinch when you show them pictures of dead Iraqi kids' brains flowing out onto the desert.
War is another freedom issue. We aren't liberating anyone, 'cept 'Nam style. Democracy? Hah! WE AREN'T a democracy in our own case. I put myself in the avg. Iraqi's shoes mentally a lot. They must be sitting there going, "well, here we are getting democracy while the U.S. turns a blind eye onbrutal theocracies and monarchies like Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
I guess I'm a "liberaltarian" in a sense. I want the gov't out of peoples' lives, but if we are going to spend trillions, let's help out others instead of bombing them into the ground.
I'll leave you with a quote from that one guy that had almost no friends and never got invited to parties.
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and women. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered....If there be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
-Tom Paine