Night Owl
Freedom isn’t a given; freedom is not naturally occurring. In the USA, it was fought for; people died for it.
Well… True, but somewhat stereotypical. The land of the free because of the brave… Heard about that.
But do you know that many nations have more freedoms for their citizens than the USA? And they fought much bloodier battles for that?
The USA has had a rather lucky history of fighting for freedom.
What fights for freedom for Americans were there?
The main one was the Revolutionary War. But from the other point of view it was a treason rebellion against the Mother-state Britain. OK, it was for freedom. What else?
The Civil War? Was it for freedom of the black slaves? Mmmm… I do not think that was the main reason for the white Yankees to start killing each other. That was more about the separatism of the Southern states. To save the Union.
No foreign power ever challenged the USA freedom. But the opposite occurred pretty often.
Japan attacked in 1942 not to conquer the USA and to strip the Americans of their freedoms, but just to kick the USA, which was interfering into Japaneese plans, out of the Pacific away from the planned Japaneese world. What else… The Vietnam War was not about American freedom, that is for sure. The numerous interventions in the Latin America either…
Most of the accomplishments by the American people in gaining and developing their freedoms have been achieved in the internal struggle between the conservatives and the liberals.
The right to vote for the blacks, the right to vote for women (in 1920, pretty late, compared to the other nations), improvement of working class rights, desegregation in 1960-th (pretty late again), overcoming McCartism in 50-ths, all these must be credited to the Liberals. They were dying, for the cause. If there were no liberals but conservative Christians and Republicans only, Pat Robertson would be the President of the USA now, and we would still have slavery, supported and justified by the Apostle Paul’s writings.
So, if you like freedoms, why do you think it is bad to be a liberal or a Democrat? Like, say, Obama?
