Tag: Freedom

Guest Post by Victor Davis Hanson

Only a little more than half of the current world’s 7 billion people are citizens of fully consensual governments.

That lucky 50 percent alone enjoys constitutionally protected freedoms. Most are also Western. Or at least they reside in nations that have become “Westernized.”

Migrants, regardless of their race, religion or gender, almost always head for a Western nation. And most often their destination remains the United States. The more it is now fashionable for Americans to take for granted or even to ridicule the idea of their own country, the more the non-American global poor risk their lives to crash America’s borders.

Continue reading “America and ‘The Dying Citizen’”

Guest Post by Jeff Thomas via International Man

For some time, it’s been apparent that the former “free world” countries (the US, EU, Canada, Australia, Japan, etc.) have been on a downward progression – socially, politically and economically.

But, in the last ten years, the awareness of this has become increasingly pronounced. With each successive year, more and more people recognise that all facets of life in these formerly great countries are heading in a decidedly negative direction.

Continue reading “The Freedom Fairy”

Via GenZConservative

Why the Regimentation of American Life is Making Us All Worse Off

The Quote by Ayn Rand on the Regimentation of American Life:

“He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident effort on teaching their fledglings to fly – yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child’s education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think.

From the first catch-phrases flung at a child to the last, it is like a series of shocks to freeze his motor, to undercut the power of his consciousness. “Don’t ask so many questions, children should be seen and not heard!” – “Who are you to think? It’s so, because I say so!” – “Don’t argue, obey!” – “Don’t try to understand, believe!” – “Don’t struggle, compromise!” – “Your heart is more important than your mind!” – “Who are you to know? Your parents know best!” – “Who are you to know? The bureaucrats know best!” – “Who are you to object? All values are relative!” – “Who are you to want to escape a thug’s bullet? That’s only a personal prejudice!”

Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival – yet that was what they did to their children.” –Ayn Rand

Continue reading “The Regimentation of American Life is Soul Sucking and Destroying Our Spirit of Individualism”

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I was at a loss as to whether I would try to write anything today.

As I thought about our country and all she faced today, rather than go deep into any specifics and details of any one major issue, I thought to explore the general health of freedom and liberty in this America we love so well. Needless to say, both are on life-support and failing fast, due largely to American ignorance, apathy and traitorous complicity.

I have to wonder at those who would suggest that I am the traitor, for not offering up my own blind allegiance to an illegitimate, criminal usurper to the seats of power and a traitor to America, but one must never give one’s most precious gifts to those so undeserving. By their own attacks upon all Americans’ Inalienable God-Given Rights, they have been found lacking and unworthy of the slightest bit of loyalty or allegiance from any true American Patriot, especially those of Us who have served this nation in many capacities over the decades and took our oaths to the Constitution and America, before God and Country, as something not to be taken lightly.

Continue reading “American Freedom: A Long and Arduous Road”

Guest Post by Simon Black

On the evening of December 12, 1799, George Washington, who at that time was 67 years old and happily retired from public life, came down with a minor cold and sore throat.

The next day he lost his voice and began having trouble breathing.

On the morning of December 14, his wife Martha sent word to several doctors asking them to come to the Washington’s estate at Mount Vernon.

Three different doctors arrived, and each of them performed a ‘bloodletting’ to treat George Washington.

Continue reading “Freedom saves lives too”

Via International Man

International Man: Statism has become a new religion.

A growing number of people are interested in using the State’s power to tell others how to live. They are also voting themselves freebies at the expense of others.

It’s clear that those who want to be left alone won’t be. Is it possible to find freedom in an unfree place?

Doug Casey: Back in 1973, my old friend Harry Browne wrote a really fantastic book called How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, where he dealt with exactly that question.

Remember, that was almost 50 years ago now—a lifetime.

Continue reading “Doug Casey on Whether It’s Possible to Find Freedom in an Unfree World”

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International Man: The world has become increasingly unfree. Recently, the global pandemic has justified all kinds of draconian measures by governments.

How do you see this trend evolving?

Doug Casey: It’s clearly a worldwide trend. The only exceptions are obscure places like North Macedonia, Belarus, and Nicaragua—and they have plenty of other, much more serious problems—and of course, Sweden, which is almost unique among advanced countries in not falling victim to the mass hysteria. Life there has gone on more-or-less normally since March as a result.

Continue reading “Doug Casey on The Biggest Threats to Your Personal and Financial Freedom Today”