Freedom matters (whether we want to acknowledge it or not)

The next time any progressive or conservative acts like freedom doesn't matter, or that it only matters for the causes they happen to favor, I want them to spend 3 minutes (9, if they have it) for a glimpse of what it looks like when people really believe that freedom doesn't matter. And that they can save the world, if only they had enough power.





This is not a new dream. It is an old nightmare. As old as homo sapiens have inhabited the planet. It has reaped much death and destruction.

And no real progress. Ever. Not even in the same leagues, really, with what free peoples have to offer.

We can take that for granted all we would like. But it is fact. No matter how much we might not want to face that fact. Because it doesn't square with our one most serious preexisting condition.

Our pride. The deadliest sin for a reason.

Because it kills more than all the rest.

It's time to end that legacy. Or at least end each of our contributions to that legacy.

By learning to take that freedom, and all the good and bad it has always had to offer and always will, more seriously than we take ourselves.