The Supreme Court’s Dark Vision of Freedom The court’s conservatives apparently believe in the land of the free. Circa 1804. "This
morning in America’s highest court, freedom seems to be less about the
absence of constraint than about the absence of shared responsibility,
community, or real concern for those who don’t want anything so much as
healthy children, or to be cared for when they are old." - Some Canadian Liberal's Notion of Freedom
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I still stare in wonder at people who crave the illusion of comfort that socialism promises. Millions and millions dead and they just dont care. Failure after failure and they cant grasp it. What did Hillary say? Willful suspention of disbelief?
Tim
With apologies to WFB, it's the rest of his great quote. Everyone knows the first half, that he'd rather be ruled by the first five-hundred names in the Boston telephone directory than the faculty of Harvard. The rest of the quote is that the faculty of Harvard would vote for utopia, and in the Twentieth Century the search for utopia lead us to the death camps, the Gulags, and the Long March.
Casca
Since the comment refers to "some Canadian liberal" it's important to understand that there are some very significant differences between Americans and Canadians. First and foremost, Americans think in terms of rights while Canadians think in terms of responsibilities. That's a much bigger difference than you might think.
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"Americans think in terms of rights while Canadians think in terms of responsibilities. "
Thing is, Americans used to have a personal sense of responsibility, to themselves and their neighbors; and felt they had the right to tell the government to go piss up a rope.
Now they're being trained that "rights" mean "entitlements", and that "responsibility" means "rich people surrendering their money to the government on the promise that it will see to it that poor people are well taken care of."
Ha, ha, stupid Americans, we Canuckis dump our useless, stupid lefties on you and you take 'em.
We Canadians do not, absolutely not, "think in terms of responsibilities." Self righteous, self aggrandizing gibberish BS. We are a bunch of government tit sucking lefties, though improving slowly. Happily, we dove into the socialist shit pool before you lot did and we're crawling out first too.
The real reason Americans are stupid is that your are incapable of learning from our experience, and the experience of dozens of other nations.
C'mon up here for some really bad health care, just so you'll know.
Anonymous: Bullshit.
Rights and responsibility are two sides of the same coin.
This is not about Responsibility. It is about an attempt to inflict Privilege and Duty on us.
Canadians are still saddled with the British system of Privilege and Duty.
Privilege and Duty work fine in the military or other top[ down systems ... but they are completely anathema to the United States, and anyone who wants to inflict them on us ( like Obama and his privilege and Duty Healthcare system ) need to be run out of the country.
