Thank you for the conversation. Believe it or not, I worked on the campaign for Maine Equality. Due to the fact I have LGBTQ members in my family. I lived In Palermo, Maine and drove to Belfast, Maine it passed after a third go around at the polls. If you like interesting conversations and good columns please subscribe to Lincoln Square.
Tim Snyder and Heather Cox Richardson get together to discuss freedom of which Snyder has written about in books On Freedom, On Tyranny, The Road to Unfreedom(https://bit.ly/487CWYS)
Snyder talks about how Americans talk about freedom as something they have because they haven’t lost something(freedom from something) But he points out that the positive aspect of freedom is much more powerful and creative It means that WE the People have the freedom to create which is a much more expansive way of seeing freedom
But Cox raises the familiar Nazi Republican trope that less government means more freedom Snyder argues that when there is less government you set the stage for oligarchic rule which we seeing played out in real time with Cheeto and his Nazi allies But government provides the structures/institutions and grants WE the People the positive aspects of freedom, eg clean air, safe food, good health care
The Nazi Republicans self servingly persuaded weak minded evangelicals that the government is the boogeyman They want Americans to believe that their fascist ideas of freedom will promote a better life and that’s true if you’re a wealthy oligarch who will profit from less government while the rest of us suffer with loss of the positive aspects of freedom and lose our creative potential as a free society
As Bobby Jones says, the entire military uses vote by mail, so this Slave act would disenfranchise the entire military
Thank you for the conversation. Believe it or not, I worked on the campaign for Maine Equality. Due to the fact I have LGBTQ members in my family. I lived In Palermo, Maine and drove to Belfast, Maine it passed after a third go around at the polls. If you like interesting conversations and good columns please subscribe to Lincoln Square.
Brilliance on display!!🤣
Freedom And The Nazi Republican Trope
Tim Snyder and Heather Cox Richardson get together to discuss freedom of which Snyder has written about in books On Freedom, On Tyranny, The Road to Unfreedom(https://bit.ly/487CWYS)
Snyder talks about how Americans talk about freedom as something they have because they haven’t lost something(freedom from something) But he points out that the positive aspect of freedom is much more powerful and creative It means that WE the People have the freedom to create which is a much more expansive way of seeing freedom
But Cox raises the familiar Nazi Republican trope that less government means more freedom Snyder argues that when there is less government you set the stage for oligarchic rule which we seeing played out in real time with Cheeto and his Nazi allies But government provides the structures/institutions and grants WE the People the positive aspects of freedom, eg clean air, safe food, good health care
The Nazi Republicans self servingly persuaded weak minded evangelicals that the government is the boogeyman They want Americans to believe that their fascist ideas of freedom will promote a better life and that’s true if you’re a wealthy oligarch who will profit from less government while the rest of us suffer with loss of the positive aspects of freedom and lose our creative potential as a free society