The Big Lie: “Freedom”
Billy asserts: In any case, people just don't want freedom, now. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking: "sure they do; this is America." But that only means you don't grasp the distinction he's making in that statement. He's not asserting that people don't think they want freedom; they most certainly do. After all; do we, or do we not live in "The Land of the Free?" You've heard me say it, but always in scare quotes. What Billy is really asserting is that people no longer have a clear grasp of what freedom is. They literally can not properly define it, and I could bet my life on that with little fear. I think he's right about that. I also think that state of affairs will perpetuate politically until such time as people, one by one, understand that they are not remotely close to being free. That happened for me nearly two decades ago, now. For most born here in the last few decades, it will be the realization that they were never fee in the classic American sense of the term. Most people alive today have never known true freedom. They have been fed two lies. The big...