Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times,
Do we really believe in freedom?
Or do we only believe in freedom when it applies to people who agree with us?
Do we trust people we fundamentally disagree with to remain free citizens?
Or do we believe they must be controlled through laws, censorship, surveillance, or social pressure because they are too dangerous to be trusted with liberty?
That question sits at the center of what I am most interested in during this moment in history, the 250th year of the American experiment.
Because when I look around, it increasingly feels like both sides are drifting in the same direction while packaging it differently.
Each side frames the other as dangerous, radical, and incapable of self-governance.People on the left often believe the right is racist, authoritarian, anti-science, and driven by extremism. Many people on the right believe the left is hostile to faith, hostile to biology, hostile to free speech, and willing to use institutions to socially engineer society.
If you genuinely believe those things about your political opponents, then freedom starts to feel dangerous.
And once freedom feels dangerous, control starts to feel justified.
Source: ZeroHedge News
